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From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a "beter" com driver yet?
Date: 13 May 1993 14:36:19 GMT
Organization: BT Laboratories
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In article <gnn.737300336@bosporus>, gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil) writes:
|> Hi Folks,
|>
|> Well thanks to several kind souls I can now run SLIP between
|> my DS5000 and 386 Laptop. Now the question is, is there going to be
|> an improved serial line driver so I can go above 9600? If there is one
|> I'd like to know about it.
|>
|> Thanks,
|> George
I've been asking the same question for quite a while... basically you have two
options (ignoring cgd's driver, because he want's to ignore it as well!)..
1. Buy a 16550 serial card, mine has run at 38400 with no silo overflows
(before I blew it up!! - where did I leave that anti-static strap!)
2. bde's intr/npx/com package, using normal serial cards you can
get up to 115000. But this is rumoured to be quite complicated to
install and it's worth waiting "a couple of weeks" for it to be
included in a patch kit.
Lee (waiting with you!)