> I need to do some serial port programming and I was thinking of using
> perl.  Is it possible to set the serial port speed in perl under
> NetBSD 2.0?

there is pkgsrc/comms/p5-Device-SerialPort 

see http://members.aol.com/Bbirthisel/alpha.html 

and for an example
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sendpage/device-serialport/modemtest?rev=1.10


it should be all you need :-)