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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 19200 bps with sio driver
Date: 25 Jan 1994 07:06:25 +1030
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In article <2hk95t$c9q@bigboote.WPI.EDU> hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague) writes:
> Can the FreeBSD sio driver handle 19200 bps. I have no trouble
> at this speed in DOS, but in unix it periodically locks up, and I have to
> hit ^C in order to keep typing. This does not happen at slower speeds.
The fact that ^C fixes it suggests that there's a problem at the user
level, not the driver level.
The sio driver copes happily with speeds in excess of 57600bps simultaneously
on multiple serial ports. There's nothing special about 19.2k -- It's a
bit of a doddle, really :-)
- mark
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