uark(4)

uark4

Arkmicro technologies ark3116 based usb serial adapter

Usage

device usb device ucom device uark

In loader.conf(5): uark_load="YES"

Overview

The uark driver supports Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based serial adapters.

Hardware

The uark driver supports the following adapters:

  • HL USB-RS232

  • HugePine USB-UART

  • KQ-U8A Data Cable

  • Skymaster USB to RS232

Files

/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

Caveats

Setting hardware flow control is not currently supported. It is not yet known how to ask the hardware to send a break.

Arkmicro Technologies do not reply to requests of documentation for their products.

Releases

46 releases since FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 6.3
  2. 6.4
  3. 7.0
  4. 7.1
  5. 7.2
  6. 7.3
  7. 7.4
  8. 8.0
  9. 8.1
  10. 8.2
  11. 8.3
  12. 8.4
  13. 9.0
  14. 9.1
  15. 9.2
  16. 9.3
  17. 10.0
  18. 10.1
  19. 10.2
  20. 10.3
  21. 10.4
  22. 11.0
  23. 11.1
  24. 11.2
  25. 11.3
  26. 11.4
  27. 12.0
  28. 12.1
  29. 12.2
  30. 12.3
  31. 12.4
  32. 13.0–13.2
  33. 13.3–15.1
  34. 16.0

History

The uark device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.0. The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 7.0.

Authors

The uark driver was written by Jonathan Gray ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.