NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     upl - USB support for Prolific based host-to-host adapters

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     upl* at uhub? port ? configuration ?

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The upl driver provides support for  Prolific  PL2301/PL2302
based host-tohost
 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    [Toc]    [Back]

     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    [Toc]    [Back]

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

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

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

OpenBSD     3.6                          April      10,      2000