Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net> wrote:
>
>Losing characters include:
>
>12 4  78   =
>     yu  p[]
>asd gh k ;
>z  vbnm, /
>
> @# %^&* )  |
>QWERT  IO
>   F  J L
> XC     >
>
>It's interesting to note that, for the alpha characters, the missing
>lowercase characters seem to complement the missing uppercase characters.

This is a classic case of parity mismatch.  Your serial console's
parity settings don't match what NetBSD expects.

I believe that NetBSD wants no parity (the default entry in
/etc/gettytab contains "np"), so try setting your terminal to 8N1.

jdarrow

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