uftdi(4)

uftdi4

Usb support for serial adapters based on the ft8u100ax and ft8u232am chips

Usage

device uftdi device ucom

Overview

The uftdi driver provides support for various serial adapters based on the FTDI FT2232C, FT8U100AX and FT8U232AM chips.

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

Hardware

The uftdi driver supports the following adapters:

  • B&B Electronics USB->RS422/485 adapter

  • HP USB-Serial adapter shipped with some HP laptops

  • Inland UAS111

  • QVS USC-1000

History

The uftdi driver appeared in FreeBSD 4.8 from NetBSD 1.5.

From freebsd-manpages 6.0-5 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.