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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD: serial driver worth the wait ?
Date: 15 Nov 1993 20:40:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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In <2c00ch$qpu@alf.uib.no> tl@artemis.cmr.no (Tom Lislegaard) writes:
>From what I've seen there's still no reliable high-speed
>serial driver for netbsd. As I'm still on 0.8 I'll probably upgrade
>some time soon, but if there's no hope of a fast serial driver in the
>near future I'll rather go with FreeBSD.

SLIP on netbsd 0.9 at 38400 with a 16550 card has no problems.
57600 generates some overflows.

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