Re: [NTLK] serial ports (eg #3) questions

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 11:45:54 PST


Quoting Karel Jansens <kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be>:

> > You can always do something like:
> >
> > alias unixnpi='unixnpi -s 57600 -d /dev/newton'
> >
> > in your login script.
>
> Of course. But wouldn't that be just too geeky?

PARSING LINE....
^v^v^ WARNING: 'TOO GEEKY' NOT FOUND IN DICTIONARY ^v^v^ ;)

> BTW, I tried the 230400 bps package. The results are somewhat mixed: /if/
> the handshaking pans out nicely, the speed is breathtakingly fast, but
> I've encountered two occasions where the Newt refused to connect (probably
> scared of all those bytes lining up at the other end :) ). I'll stick with
> 115200 for now.

Some older serial ports won't even do 230400 anyways. I don't think I ever
got 230400 working at all. I wonder if that speed exposes some timing bugs in
the serial code...

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