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31.Dd December 10, 2010
32.Dt UMCS 4
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm umcs
36.Nd USB support for serial adapters based on the MCS7820 and MCS7840 chips
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38To compile this driver into the kernel,
39place the following lines in your
40kernel configuration file:
41.Bd -ragged -offset indent
42.Cd "device umcs"
43.Ed
44.Pp
45Alternatively, to load the driver as a
46module at boot time, place the following line in
47.Xr loader.conf 5 :
48.Bd -literal -offset indent
49umcs_load="YES"
50.Ed
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Nm
54driver provides support for various multiport serial adapters based on the MosCom
55MCS7820 and MCS7840 chips. They are 2- or 4-port adapters with full-featured
5616550-compatible UARTs and very flexible baud generators. Also, these chips
57support RS422/RS485 and IrDA oprations.
58.Pp
59The device is accessed through the
60.Xr ucom 4
61driver which makes it behave like a
62.Xr tty 4 .
63.Pp
64Different ports on device are presented as sub-units, like
65.Pa /dev/ttyU0.1
66and
67.Pa /dev/ttyU0.2
68.Sh HARDWARE
69The
70.Nm
71driver was tested on the following adapters:
72.Pp
73.Bl -bullet -compact
74.It
75ST Lab U-360 two-port serial USB adapter
76.It
77ST Lab U-400 four-port serial USB adapter
78.El
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr tty 4 ,
81.Xr ucom 4 ,
82.Xr usb 4
83.Sh BUGS
84This driver doesn't support access to any fine tunes of
85chip, like RS522/RS485 mode, non-standard baudrates, etc.
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm
89driver
90appeared in ports since December of 2010.
91.Sh AUTHORS
92.An -nosplit
93The
94.Nm
95driver was written by
96.An Lev Serebryakov
97.Aq lev@FreeBSD.org .
98