UPL(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

UPL(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

upl - Prolific based host-to-host adapters

SYNOPSIS #

upl* at uhub?

DESCRIPTION #

The upl driver provides support for Prolific PL2301/PL2302 based host-to-host USB connectors.

The upl driver appears as a point-to-point network interface and should be configured with ifconfig(8) in the same way as other point-to-point interfaces. The upl device supports IPv4 only.

HARDWARE #

The upl driver supports the following adapters from the following vendors:

Aserton

Bencent

Butterfly

Camtel

Inland

Longshine

PC Linq

Prolific

StarMount

Univex

VVMer

Belkin, Entrega, and Xircom do NOT use this chip and are not supported by this driver.

SEE ALSO #

netintro(4), uhub(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY #

The upl driver appeared in NetBSD 1.5. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 2.9.

OpenBSD 7.5 - June 26, 2008