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32.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2016 $
33.Dt PUC 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm puc
37.Nd PCI universal communications card driver
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Cd "puc* at pci?"
40.Cd "puc* at cardbus?"
41.Cd "lpt* at puc?"
42.Cd "com* at puc?"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46driver provides support for PCI communications cards containing
47simple communications ports, such as NS16550-family
48.Pf ( Nm com )
49serial ports and standard PC-like
50.Pf ( Nm lpt )
51parallel ports.
52The driver is called
53.Dq universal
54because the interfaces to these devices aren't nearly as well
55defined and standard as they should be.
56.Pp
57The driver currently supports the following cards:
58.Pp
59.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
60.It Tn "AT&T/Lucent Venus Modem (found on IBM 33L4618, Actiontec 56K)"
61.It Tn "Avlab Low Profile PCI 4S Quartet (4 port serial)"
62.It Tn "Avlab PCI 2S (2 port serial)"
63.It Tn "Boca Research Turbo Serial 654 (4 port serial)"
64.It Tn "Boca Research Turbo Serial 658 (8 port serial)"
65.It Tn "Brainboxes Instashield IS-200 with BB16PCI958 (2 port serial)"
66.It Tn "Cronyx Omega-PCI (8 port serial)"
67.It Tn "Decision Computer Inc PCCOM PCI 2 Port (2 port serial)"
68.It Tn "Decision Computer Inc PCCOM PCI 4 Port (4 port serial)"
69.It Tn "Decision Computer Inc PCCOM PCI 8 Port (8 port serial)"
70.It Tn "Digi International Digi Neo 4 (4 port serial)"
71.It Tn "Digi International Digi Neo 8 (8 port serial)"
72.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel)"
73.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4035 (dual serial)"
74.It Tn "Exsys EX-41098 (4 port serial)"
75.It Tn "IBM 4810 SurePOS 300 Series SCC (4 port serial)"
76.It Tn "Koutech IOFLEX-2S (dual serial)"
77.It Tn "Kouwell Model-223 (2 port serial, 1 port parallel)"
78.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI (parallel port)"
79.It Tn "Lava Computers 2SP-PCI and Quattro-PCI (dual serial)"
80.It Tn "Lava Computers Octopus-550"
81.It Tn "Lava LavaPort-650"
82.It Tn "MosChip MCS9865 (1, 2 and 4 port serial)"
83.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. PCI I/O Card 4S (4 port serial)"
84.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. C104H/PCI (4 port serial)"
85.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. CP104/PCI (4 port serial)"
86.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. C168H/PCI (8 port serial)"
87.It Tn "Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. CP168U/PCI (8 port serial)"
88.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X008 (serial)"
89.It Tn "NEC PK-UG-X001 K56flex PCI (modem)"
90.It Tn "NetMos 1P (1 port parallel)"
91.It Tn "NetMos 2S1P (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
92.It Tn "NetMos 2S (2 port serial)"
93.It Tn "NetMos 4S (4 port serial)"
94.It Tn "NetMos 6S (6 port serial)"
95.It Tn "Oxford OX16PCI952 (2 port serial, 1 port parallel)"
96.It Tn "Oxford OX16PCI954 (4 port serial, 1 port parallel)"
97.It Tn "PLX 9016 (8 port serial)"
98.It Tn "QEMU PCI Serial"
99.It Tn "QEMU PCI Serial 2x"
100.It Tn "QEMU PCI Serial 4x"
101.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2P1S PCI (dual parallel and single serial)"
102.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 2S1P PCI (dual serial and single parallel)"
103.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial)"
104.It Tn "SIIG Cyber I/O PCI (single serial and single parallel)"
105.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel Dual PCI (dual parallel)"
106.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Parallel PCI (single parallel)"
107.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial Dual PCI (dual serial)"
108.It Tn "SIIG Cyber Serial PCI (single serial)"
109.It Tn "SIIG Cyber 8S PCI 16C850"
110.It Tn "SUNIX 400x (1 port parallel)"
111.It Tn "SUNIX 401x (2 port parallel)"
112.It Tn "SUNIX 402x (1 port serial)"
113.It Tn "SUNIX 403x (2 port serial)"
114.It Tn "SUNIX 405x (4 port serial)"
115.It Tn "SUNIX 406x (8 port serial)"
116.It Tn "SUNIX 407x (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
117.It Tn "SUNIX 408x (2 port serial and 2 port parallel)"
118.It Tn "SUNIX 409x (4 port serial and 2 port parallel)"
119.It Tn "SUNIX 5008 (1 port parallel)"
120.It Tn "SUNIX 5016 (16 port serial)"
121.It Tn "SUNIX 5027 (1 port serial)"
122.It Tn "SUNIX 5037 (2 port serial)"
123.It Tn "SUNIX 5056 (4 port serial)"
124.It Tn "SUNIX 5066 (8 port serial)"
125.It Tn "SUNIX 5069 (1 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
126.It Tn "SUNIX 5079 (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
127.It Tn "SUNIX 5099 (4 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
128.It Tn "Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP (4 port serial and 2 port parallel)"
129.It Tn "US Robotics 3CP5609 PCI (modem)"
130.It Tn "VScom PCI 800  (8 port serial, probably OEM)"
131.It Tn "VScom PCI 011H (1 port parallel)"
132.It Tn "VScom PCI 100H (1 port serial)"
133.It Tn "VScom PCI 110H (1 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
134.It Tn "VScom PCI 200H (2 port serial)"
135.It Tn "VScom PCI 210H (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
136.It Tn "VScom PCI 400H (4 port serial)"
137.It Tn "VScom PCI 410H (4 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
138.It Tn "VScom PCI 800H (8 port serial)"
139.It Tn "VScom PCI 100L (1 port serial)"
140.It Tn "VScom PCI 200L (2 port serial)"
141.It Tn "VScom PCI 210L (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)"
142.It Tn "VScom PCI 400L (4 port serial)"
143.It Tn "VScom PCI 400S (4 port serial)"
144.It Tn "VScom PCI 800L (8 port serial)"
145.El
146.Pp
147The driver does not support these cards:
148.Pp
149.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
150.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4006 (single parallel)"
151.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4025 (single serial)"
152.It Tn "Dolphin Peripherals 4078 (dual serial and single parallel)"
153.El
154.Pp
155but support for them (and for similar cards) should be trivial to add.
156.Pp
157The
158.Ar port
159locator is used to identify the port (starting from 0) on the
160communications card that a subdevice is supposed to attach to.
161Typically, the numbering of ports is explained in a card's
162hardware documentation, and the port numbers used by the driver
163are the same as (or one off from, e.g., the manual uses ports
164numbered starting from 1) those described in the documentation.
165.Sh SEE ALSO
166.Xr cardbus 4 ,
167.Xr com 4 ,
168.Xr intro 4 ,
169.Xr lpt 4 ,
170.Xr pci 4
171.Sh HISTORY
172The
173.Nm
174driver first appeared in
175.Nx 1.4 .
176.Ox
177support was added in
178.Ox 2.7 .
179CardBus support was added in
180.Ox 4.0 .
181.Sh AUTHORS
182The
183.Nm
184driver was written by
185.An Chris Demetriou .
186.Sh BUGS
187The current design of this driver keeps any
188.Nm com
189ports on these cards from easily being used as console.
190Of course, because boards with those are PCI boards, they also suffer
191from dynamic address assignment, which also means that they
192can't easily be used as console.
193.Pp
194Some of the cards supported by this driver have jumper-selectable
195.Nm com
196port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
197Those can be easily accommodated with driver flags, or by
198using a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
199.Pp
200Some of the cards supported by this driver, e.g., the VScom PCI-800,
201have software-selectable
202.Nm com
203port clock multipliers, which are unsupported by this driver.
204Those can be accommodated using internal driver flags, or by using
205a properly scaled baud rate when talking to the card.
206.Pp
207Some ports use an
208.Nm lpt
209driver other than the machine-independent driver.
210Those ports will not be able to use
211.Nm lpt
212ports attached to
213.Nm
214devices.
215