From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 18: 2:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD2537B403 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:02:11 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: "Corey Snow" Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:02:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Serial console issues Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3D0F3858.24497.18675BCE@localhost> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020619010211152.AAA571@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Jun 2002, at 13:40, Corey Snow boldly uttered: > On 17 Jun 2002, at 20:35, djf2 wrote: > > Yup. I can access the console just fine at 9600 baud. I'm just > > trying to increase that speed. The documentation makes it seem like its > > possible, but I have yet to get the serial port to use any other speed. > > > > I've been having the same problem. I tried everything I could think > of. The only other thing I can think of to try is to use a different > terminal program. However, since I can use ssh to get into the box, I > don't worry too much about a 9600 baud serial console. It's > irritating, but not hugely so. > > I suppose it could also be related to the ancient motherboard my > headless box runs on. It's an old 486 DX2/66 and may not do well at > higher COM port speeds. Quite a few 486's had no problems with higher serial speeds, it really comes down to the UART. Either you had add-in serial or multi- IO cards with 16550 UARTs, or some 486's even had them embedded on the MB. (ie this AMI Voyager board I have sitting here - although the SMC multi-IO chip had some other serial bug :-) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message