ucycom
— device
driver for Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 USB to RS232 bridges
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line
in your kernel configuration file:
device usb
device hid
device ucom
device ucycom
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place
the following line in
loader.conf(5):
The ucycom
driver provides support for the
Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 bridge chips. These chips were designed to
provide a low-cost transition path to USB for existing RS232 devices, and
have fairly limited capabilities.
The ucycom
driver behaves like a
tty(4).
The ucycom
driver currently supports the
following devices which incorporate Cypress USB to RS232 bridge chips:
- DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS receiver
- /dev/ttyU*
- for callin ports
- /dev/ttyU*.init
-
- /dev/ttyU*.lock
- corresponding callin initial-state and lock-state devices
- /dev/cuaU*
- for callout ports
- /dev/cuaU*.init
-
- /dev/cuaU*.lock
- corresponding callout initial-state and lock-state devices
The ucycom
driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 5.3.
The ucycom
driver and this manual page
were written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav
<des@FreeBSD.org>.