WARNING: You need write permissions on the USB device to make it work properly. Consider adding your user to the operator group: % pw groupmod operator -m jerry and adding a rule in /etc/devfs.rules like this one: [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0660 group operator To load this new rule add the following to /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset="system" Then restart devfs to load the new rule: % service devfs restart