(Quoting myself at the end for background)

I'm trying to set up a console server on NetBSD_1.6.1RC2 on i386. I have
several devices connected to ports on a SIIG 4S PCI Serial expander card.
I can't get any of those devices to work properly. When tip-ed in, I see
recognizable bits with lots of garbage in between. I've twiddled just
about every termios setting and tried multiple connection methods (tip,
kermit, minicom, conserver) but I can't get it to work.

So I beat my head against this for a while and found out the following:

Things work fine on the system's built-in serial ports, with the same
settings described below. The problem is confined to ports on the SIIG 4S
board. Also, I am seeing silo overflows on the SIIG ports. I assume that
this is directly related to the garbage I see on consoles connected to
those ports.

So then, where can I go from here? Is there any way to manipulate the
buffer on this card? What else can I try?

Thanks in advance...

Alex Dumitriu

> > Alright, that aside, I have a few devices that I can't talk to properly,
> > but let's just pick one: I have a hardware RAID that wants a 38400 8n1 no
> > flow control terminal. Those settings work fine on a laptop with
> > hyperterm.
> >
> > My /etc/remote entry looks like this:
> >
> > oldraid:dv=/dev/tty02:br#38400:pa=none:dc:
> > and I've stty-ed the serial port to look like this:
> >
> > # stty -f /dev/tty02 -a
> > speed 38400 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns;
> > lflags: -icanon -isig -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoke -echonl
> >         -echoctl -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho -pendin
> >         -nokerninfo -extproc