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Clouds, Computers and Composites: The New Crisis in Aviation

by Manuel Garcia, Jr., Counterpunch.org The recent loss of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-200, has raised many doubts among the flying public and even some aviation professionals about the safety of the newest generation of passenger airplanes. These new airliners have composite materials replacing metal for many structural elements and control surfaces, and they [...]

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uvscom

UVSCOM(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 UVSCOM(4)

NAME

     uvscom -- USB support for SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U serial adapters driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device uvscom
	   device ucom

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   uvscom_load="YES"

HARDWARE

     The uvscom driver supports the following adapters:

     o	 DDI Pocket Air H" C@rd
     o	 DDI Pocket Air H" C@rd 64
     o	 NTT P-in
     o	 NTT P-in m@ster

DESCRIPTION

     The uvscom driver provides support for the SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U chip.  Slipper U is a PC Card to USB converter for data communication card
     adapters.

     The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4).

SEE ALSO

     tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4)

HISTORY

     The uvscom driver first appeared in FreeBSD and later in NetBSD 1.6.  This manual page was adopted from NetBSD by Tom Rhodes
     <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> in April 2002.

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