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32.Dd July 11, 1998
33.Dt PUC 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm puc
37.Nd PCI
38.Dq universal
39communications card driver
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "puc* at pci?
42.Cd "pccom* at puc? port ?"
43.Cd "lpt* at puc? port ?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver provides support for PCI communications cards containing
48simple communications ports, such as NS16550-family
49.Pf ( Nm com )
50serial ports and standard PC-like
51.Pf ( Nm lpt )
52parallel ports.
53The driver is called
54.Dq universal
55because the interfaces to these devices aren't nearly as well
56defined and standard as they should be.
57.Pp
58The driver currently supports the following cards:
59.Pp
60.Bl -tag -width -offset indent -compact
61.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel)"
62.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4035 (dual serial)"
63.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2P1S PCI (dual parallel and single serial)"
64.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2S1P PCI (dual serial and single parallel)"
65.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial)"
66.It Tn "SIIG Cyber I/O PCI (single serial and single parallel)"
67.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel Dual PCI (dual parallel)"
68.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel PCI (single parallel)"
69.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial Dual PCI (dual serial)"
70.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial PCI (single serial)"
71.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 8S PCI 16C850"
72.It Tn "VScom PCI-800 (8 port serial, probably OEM)"
73.It Tn "AT&T/Lucent Venus Modem (found on IBM 33L4618 card, Actiontec 56K, and others)"
74.It Tn "US Robotics 3CP5609 PCI (modem)"
75.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI (parallel port)"
76.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI and Quattro-PCI (dual serial)"
77.It Tn "Lava Computers Octopus-550"
78.It Tn "Lava LavaPort-650"
79.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X008 (serial)"
80.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X001 K56flex PCI (modem)"
81.It Tn "Koutech IOFLEX-2S (dual serial)"
82.El
83.Pp
84The driver does not support these cards:
85.Pp
86.Bl -tag -width -offset indent -compact
87.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4006 (single parallel)"
88.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4025 (single serial)"
89.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4078 (dual serial and single parallel)"
90.El
91.Pp
92but support for them (and for similar cards) should be trivial to add.
93.Pp
94The
95.Ar port
96locator is used to identify the port (starting from 0) on the
97communications card that a subdevice is supposed to attach to.
98Typically, the numbering of ports is explained in a card's
99hardware documentation, and the port numbers used by the driver
100are the same as (or one off from, e.g., the manual uses ports
101numbered starting from 1) those described in the documentation.
102.Sh SEE ALSO
103.Xr com 4 ,
104.Xr lpt 4 ,
105.Xr pci 4
106.Sh HISTORY
107The
108.Nm
109driver first appeared in
110.Nx 1.4 .
111.Ox
112support was added in
113.Ox 2.7 .
114.Sh AUTHORS
115The
116.Nm
117driver was written by Chris Demetriou.
118.Sh BUGS
119The current design of this driver keeps any
120.Nm com
121ports on these cards from easily being used as console.
122Of course, because boards with those are PCI boards, they also suffer
123from dynamic address assignment, which also means that they
124can't easily be used as console.
125.Pp
126Some of cards supported by this driver have jumper-selectable
127.Nm com
128port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
129Those can be easily accommodated with driver flags, or by
130using a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
131.Pp
132Some of the cards supported by this driver, e.g., the VScom PCI-800,
133have software-selectable
134.Nm com
135port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
136Those can be accommodated using internal driver flags, or by using
137a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
138.Pp
139Some ports use an
140.Nm lpt
141driver other than the machine-independent driver.
142Those ports will not be able to use
143.Nm lpt
144ports attached to
145.Nm
146devices.
147