uplcom(4)

uplcom4

Prolific pl-2303 usb serial adapter

Usage

uplcom* at uhub? ucom* at uplcom?

Overview

The uplcom driver provides support for the Prolific PL-2303 USB-to-RS232 Bridge chip.

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

Hardware

The uplcom driver supports the following adapters:

Alcatel One Touch 535/735
Aten UC232A
Belkin F5U257
Digitus DA-70145
ELECOM UC-SGT
Ericsson DCU-10 & DCU-11, made by Susteen, Inc.
HAL Crossam2+USB
HIGH-EDGE HE800
I/O DATA USB-RSAQ
I/O DATA USB-RSAQ2
I/O DATA USB-RSAQ3
I/O DATA USB-RSAQ5
IOGEAR UC-232A
iTegno WM1080A
Leadtek 9531 GPS
Maxxtro UC-232A
Nokia CA-42
Ours Technology DKU-5 clone
Palm 700WX
Pharos USB GPS
PLANEX USB-RS232 URS-03
RATOC REX-USB60
Samsung I330 cradle
Siemens X65
Siemens X75
Siemens SX1
Sitecom USB-Serial CNA-104
SOURCENEXT KeikaiDenwa 8
Speed Dragon MS3303H
TDK USB-PDC Adapter UPA9664
TDK USB-PHS Adapter UHA6400
Tripp-Lite U209

Releases

52 releases since OpenBSD 3.0; the text changed 13 times.

  1. 3.0–3.1
  2. 3.2–3.3
  3. 3.4–3.5
  4. 3.6
  5. 3.7
  6. 3.8
  7. 3.9
  8. 4.0
  9. 4.1
  10. 4.2
  11. 4.3
  12. 4.4–4.5
  13. 4.6–6.1
  14. 6.2–8.0

History

The uplcom driver appeared in NetBSD 1.6. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 3.0.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.