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32 .Nd Universal Serial Bus
34 To compile this driver into the kernel,
35 place the following line in your
36 kernel configuration file:
37 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
41 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
42 module at boot time, place the following line in
44 .Bd -literal -offset indent
47 .Sh USERLAND PROGRAMMING
48 USB functions can be accessed from userland through the libusb library.
54 provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for
56 devices in host and device side mode.
60 driver has three layers:
61 .Bl -tag -width 6n -offset indent
62 .It USB Controller (Bus)
67 The controller attaches to a physical bus
72 bus attaches to the controller, and the root hub attaches
74 Any devices attached to the bus will attach to the root hub
75 or another hub attached to the
81 device will always be present as it is needed for the
85 provides support for the following devices.
87 .Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
91 Mass Storage Devices, e.g., external disk drives
93 Mass storage driver for device-side mode
95 .Ss Wired network interfaces
96 .Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
98 .\"ADMtek AN986 Pegasus Ethernet driver
100 ASIX Electronics AX88x7x/760 USB Ethernet driver
102 .\"CATC USB-EL1210A Ethernet driver
104 .\"Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B Ethernet driver
106 .\"USB CDC (communication device class) driver for the LG P-500 smartphone
108 .\"RealTek RTL8150 Ethernet driver
110 Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet driver
112 .Ss Wireless network interfaces
113 .Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
115 NDIS miniport driver wrapper
117 Ralink Technology RT2501USB/RT2601USB IEEE 802.11 driver
119 Ralink Technology RT2700U/RT2800U/RT3000U IEEE 802.11 driver
121 .\"Bluetooth adapters
123 .\"Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 driver
125 Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU IEEE 802.11 driver
127 .Ss Serial and parallel interfaces
128 .Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
130 .\"MosChip Semiconductor MCS7703 based serial adapters
132 support for 3G datacards
134 Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based serial adapters
136 Belkin serial adapters
138 support for BWCT console serial adapters
140 WinChipHead CH341/CH340 serial adapters
144 Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 USB to RS232 bridges
148 serial devices based on the FTDI chips
150 generic serial device
152 support for iPAQ units
156 serial adapters based on the MCS7820 and MCS7840 chips
158 Magic Control Technology USB-232 based serial adapters
162 serial adapters based on the MCS7703 chip
164 Prolific PL-2303/2303X/2303HX serial adapters
166 Silicon Laboratories CP2101, CP2102 and CP2103 USB to serial bridge
168 .\"Texas Instruments TUSB3410 RS232 to USB converter
170 support for the Handspring Visor, a Palmpilot compatible PDA
172 SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U serial adapters
175 .\".Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
176 .\".It Xr snd_uaudio 4
177 .\"audio device driver
179 .\"driver for the Rio500 MP3 player
181 .Ss Radio receiver devices
182 .Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
184 Cypress Semiconductor FM Radio
186 .Ss Human Interface Devices
187 .Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
189 eGalax touchscreen driver
191 generic driver for Human Interface Devices
193 keyboards that follow the boot protocol
197 .\".Ss Miscellaneous devices
198 .\".Bl -tag -width ".Xr snd_uaudio 4" -offset indent -compact
202 .Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB
205 is a system where external devices can be connected to a PC.
206 The most common USB speeds are:
207 .Bl -tag -width 6n -offset indent
208 .It Low Speed (1.5MBit/sec)
209 .It Full Speed (12MBit/sec)
210 .It High Speed (480MBit/sec)
215 has a USB controller that is the master of the bus.
216 The physical communication is simplex which means the host controller only communicates with one USB device at a time.
218 There can be up to 127 devices connected to an USB HUB tree.
219 The addresses are assigned
220 dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus.
222 Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints.
224 is individually addressed and the addresses are static.
225 Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes:
226 .Em control , isochronous , bulk ,
229 A device always has at least one endpoint.
230 This endpoint has address 0 and is a control
231 endpoint and is used to give commands to and extract basic data,
232 such as descriptors, from the device.
233 Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional.
235 The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces.
236 An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g.\&
237 a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present
238 one interface for each.
239 An interface can sometimes be set into different modes,
240 called alternate settings, which affects how it operates.
241 Different alternate settings can have different endpoints
244 A device may operate in different configurations.
246 configuration, the device may present different sets of endpoints
249 The bus enumeration of the
251 bus proceeds in several steps:
254 Any interface specific driver can attach to the device.
256 If none is found, generic interface class drivers can attach.
261 specifications can be found at:
263 .D1 Pa http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
316 module complies with the USB 2.0 standard.
320 module has been inspired by the
322 USB stack initially written by Lennart Augustsson.
325 module was written by
326 .An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hselasky@FreeBSD.org .