NAME

upl — USB support for 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), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The upl driver appeared in NetBSD 1.5.