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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:23:37 +0000 ()
From: Nick Liu <nickliu@uniqsite.com>
Reply-To: Nick Liu <nickliu@uniqsite.com>
To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiport Serial card from ByteRunner
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 Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
   
> 
> Depends on which ByteRunner Card.  Right now, No FreeBSD version that I'm
> aware of supports 16650 software selection of baud rates higher than
> 115.2kbps. I plan on rectifying this, but that certainly won't be anytime
> in the next month or so.
> 
> However, some of the ByteRunner cards allow you to feed a higher than
> standard clock to the UART.  This doesn't have to be supported by
> software, as the software will set 115.2kbps and get 2 or 4 times that.
> 
> I understand that there are some kernel tweaks that need to be done to
> make this work reliably.  I've got some cards I'm going to play with, but
> I haven't actually set them up yet.
> 
> 

Thank you for the info.  I wish you succeed in your venture.

Nick