Subject: Re: Fast serial ports
To: None <toby@disegno.com.au>
From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/16/2001 12:18:50
Hmm... My SS1+ gives me an error when I try to set it to anything higher
than 38400. How do I enable it to work at 57600, or 115,200 needed for a
56k modem?


Toby Thain wrote:
> 
> I can recommend MAGMA products ( http://www.magma.com/ ) -
> I use an LC 2+1 Sp ( http://www.magma.com/sbus/sbus_lc2+1sp.html ) with
> an IPX.
> NetBSD has drivers but I am currently using it with SunOS 4.
> 
> NetBSD 1.4/1.5 handle a 56k on built-in serial ports without problems in
> my experience on SS1/SS1+  with ipf & ipnat (at full throughput,
> interrupt load seems to be 30-50% according to systat but no evidence of
> overruns, unlike SunOS 4).
> 
> Toby
> 
> Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone know of a good `fast' serial port SBus card for
> > a Sun Classic workstation?  i.e. one that wil support
> > a 56k modem without falling over like the internal
> > ports do :P  I assume that putting one of these in it
> > would make it good for a 56k internet router compared
> > to a doorstop (it's current task :).
> >
> > Obviously, it's got to work nicely with NetBSD 1.5!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > - Chris.

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Pat Wendorf