07-08-2002
The first question that I would ask is what will you be using Free/OpenBSD for?
I use both at home but I tend toward FreeBSD over OpenBSD. There are more ports available for FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Handbook (link located on the
www.freebsd.org website) is very well written.
I find that support for FreeBSD is more widely available than OpenBSD. However, the OpenBSD folks are a bit more paranoid than the FreeBSD folks when it comes to code audits (or so it would appear to the common person such as myself).
If you are going to be strictly security related work I would go with OpenBSD and you if you wanting a general server/desktop then I would suggest FreeBSD.
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NAME
uark -- Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based USB serial adapter
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device uark
device ucom
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
uark_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The uark driver supports Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based serial adapters.
HARDWARE
The uark driver supports the following adapters:
o HL USB-RS232
o HugePine USB-UART
o KQ-U8A Data Cable
o Skymaster USB to RS232
SEE ALSO
tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4)
HISTORY
The uark device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.0. The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 7.0.
AUTHORS
The uark driver was written by Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>.
CAVEATS
Setting hardware flow control is not currently supported. It is not yet known how to ask the hardware to send a break.
Arkmicro Technologies do not reply to requests of documentation for their products.
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