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From: bill@bhhome.ci.net (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: tip at 38400+
Date: 6 Aug 1994 03:28:23 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company
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peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:

>I'm running tip, kermit, and ppp at 38400, and I'm running kermit at
>57600 direct connect (and getting around 5000 cps on that link) on
>both a plain 16550 COM1/COM2 cards and a 4-port shared-interrupt multi
>port card, using the sio driver on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.
>Does your serial card have a real 16550 on it, or one of the integrated
>16550 emulators?

Well the port I've tried to use doesn't even have a 16550.  But the
problem with a non-16550 is usually seen in Character Loss.  I'm not
even getting that far!  I get garbage when I first try to connect!

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