On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:49:33PM -0500, Alex Dumitriu wrote:
> 
> (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?

Maybe it's a speed problem. Not all SIIG have the same clock.
Have you tried changing baud rate (like 2x or 4x lower than the one you
want) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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