From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 19:17:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA22487 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:17:31 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA22480 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:17:25 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA24528; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:15:18 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511220315.DAA24528@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: synchronous support? To: archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:15:18 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511212031.MAA00574@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Nov 21, 95 12:31:04 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 863 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs stands accused of saying: > > Does the 16550A support synchronous mode, and if so, is there a driver > for it? Eg, can you use the "sio" driver with baud rate zero? No, the 16550 is a UART : Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. It does not support synchronous communications. If you need synch. comms, check www.etinc.com, or the ARNET driver recently checked into -current. > Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[