Subject: Re: Siig CyberSerial 4S on netbsd 2.0 ?
To: Peter Seebach <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Brad du Plessis <bduplessis@commissionaires.ab.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/20/2005 21:51:28
> Time the sending of a 1000MB file over the cable, and...

I tried this and was seeing roughly 100 KBytes / second with a baud rate set 
at 115200. So this looks right to me.

Maybe the problem is the number of stop bits, or the parity.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Seebach" <seebs@plethora.net>
To: <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Siig CyberSerial 4S on netbsd 2.0 ?


> In message <00cb01c575a1$1d545e20$6ea8a8c0@acervfr9okf50t>, "Brad du 
> Plessis" w
> rites:
>>I see the same funny characters.
>>Its definitely something funny with the speed settings, connecting 2 ports
>>on the same card with a null-modem works fine.
>
> This suggests a brute-force solution.
>
> Time the sending of a 1000MB file over the cable, and...
>
> That said, looking at their instructions for using another card with 
> Linux,
> there may be a non-volatile register on the card for storing a base baud 
> rate
> with respect to which everything is divided; their instructions have the 
> user
> boot under DOS once to run a utility that sets the base baud rate for the 
> card
> to 920kbps, then tell the Linux serial driver that the card's running at
> 920kbps.
>
> -s