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NAME
ucycom — device driver for Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 USB to RS232 bridgesSYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device usb
device ucom
device ucycom
device ucom
device ucycom
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
ucycom_load="YES"
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
HISTORY
The ucycom driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.AUTHORS
The ucycom driver and this manual page were written by <des@FreeBSD.org>.November 20, 2011 | FreeBSD |