umct(4)

umct4

Magic control technology usb-rs232 converter driver

Usage

device usb device ucom device umct

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

Overview

The umct driver provides support for USB to RS-232 converters based on the Magic Control Technology USB-232 design. These devices support most of the standard RS-232 features including baud rates ranging from 300 to 115200 bits per second. However, neither hardware nor software flow control seems to be supported.

Access to devices under this driver is via the ucom(4) framework and device nodes.

Hardware

The umct driver supports the following USB to RS232 adapters:

  • Belkin F5U109

  • Belkin F5U409

  • D-Link DU-H3SP USB BAY Hub

  • Magic Control Technology USB-232

  • Sitecom USB-232

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

54 releases since FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE; the text changed 37 times.

  1. 4.10–4.11
  2. 5.3
  3. 5.4–5.5
  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 umct driver appeared in FreeBSD 5.2. It is loosely based on the ubsa(4) driver by Alexander Kabaev ⟨[email protected]⟩ with documentation from Wolfgang Grandeggar ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Authors

The umct driver was written by Scott Long ⟨[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.