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From: willeyma@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: tip at 38400+
Date: 1 Aug 1994 06:45:47 GMT
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In article <Cttw32.C6A@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
|> In article <31geil$g3e@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> willeyma@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) writes:
|> >Consider yourself lucky.  I can't go faster than 9600 bps!  This is because I
|> >have some cheap-o 16450 UARTs on my motherboard.  What type of UARTs do you
|> >and the Linux box have?  What you need is 16550.
|> 
|> I'm typing this message on a FreeBSD 1.1 system with 16450 chips running
|> at 38400, so it certainly can be done.  I'm planning to install NetBSD
|> 1.0 as soon as it arrives, and I hope it can do the same...

The problem with mine is that I am running "term".  I can connect with just
a plain 'ole connection just fine, except it drops a character here and there.
This would most likely be okay as well except the "thing" I communicate with
can't do rts/cts.  So, I have no flow control!  ;-)

Mark

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