ubsa(4)

ubsa4

Usb support for belkin serial adapters

Usage

device usb device ucom device ubsa

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

Overview

The ubsa driver provides support for the USB-to-RS232 Bridge chip used by a variety of serial adapters from Belkin and other vendors.

The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4).

Hardware

The ubsa driver supports the following adapters:

  • AnyData ADU-500A EV-DO modem

  • AnyData ADU-E100A (no EV-DO mode support)

  • Belkin F5U103

  • Belkin F5U120

  • e-Tek Labs Kwik232

  • GoHubs GoCOM232

  • Peracom single port serial adapter

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

Releases

60 releases since FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE; the text changed 37 times.

  1. 4.8–4.11
  2. 5.0–5.2.1
  3. 5.3–5.5
  4. 6.0–6.2
  5. 6.3
  6. 6.4
  7. 7.0
  8. 7.1
  9. 7.2
  10. 7.3
  11. 7.4
  12. 8.0
  13. 8.1
  14. 8.2
  15. 8.3
  16. 8.4
  17. 9.0
  18. 9.1
  19. 9.2
  20. 9.3
  21. 10.0
  22. 10.1
  23. 10.2
  24. 10.3
  25. 10.4
  26. 11.0
  27. 11.1
  28. 11.2
  29. 11.3
  30. 11.4
  31. 12.0
  32. 12.1
  33. 12.2
  34. 12.3
  35. 12.4
  36. 13.0–13.2
  37. 13.3–15.1
  38. 16.0

History

The ubsa driver appeared in FreeBSD 5.0. The uplcom(4) manual page was adopted from NetBSD by Tom Rhodes ⟨[email protected]⟩ in April 2002 and modified for the ubsa driver by Alexander Kabaev ⟨[email protected]⟩ in October 2002.

Authors

The ubsa driver was written by Alexander Kabaev ⟨[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.