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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!dhess From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess) Subject: Re: NetBSD: serial driver worth the wait ? Message-ID: <dhess.753404681@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA References: <2c00ch$qpu@alf.uib.no> <2c8pg5$9uv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: 15 Nov 93 23:04:41 GMT Lines: 19 banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes: >In <2c00ch$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. I've been running NetBSD-current for a few months with a SLIP connection at 57600 with a 16550 UART and have never had an overflow. I only ran -0.9 for a few days, so I can't comment on -0.9 specifically.... -dwh- dhess@cs.stanford.edu