NAME¶
ucycom
—
device driver for Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 USB
to RS232 bridges
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel
configuration file:
device usb
device ucom
device ucycom
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
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).
HARDWARE¶
The
ucycom
driver currently supports the
following devices which incorporate Cypress USB to RS232 bridge chips:
- DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS receiver
SEE ALSO¶
tty(4),
usb(4)
HISTORY¶
The
ucycom
driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS¶
The
ucycom
driver and this manual page were
written by
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
⟨des@FreeBSD.org⟩.