Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:19:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xfs.org> Subject: Re: Console serial speed Message-ID: <3F261FE6.D137B326@mindspring.com> References: <1059156388.34654.94.camel@rose.americas.sgi.com> <20030726090636.GK22295@spc.org> <1059411822.92723.145.camel@lupo.thebarn.com>
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Russell Cattelan wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 07:12, Daniel Lang wrote: > > Bruce M Simpson wrote on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:36AM +0100: > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:06:28PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > > How does one set the serial speed of the console. > > > > > > Does specifying BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=57600 not work? > > > > No, I've experienced the same problem years ago. > > The funny thing is, that it worked on some machines, > > while it didn't on others. > > > > I worked around the problem by putting > > machdep.conspeed=38400 > > in /etc/sysctl.conf, so the speed is reset to the right > > speed, once the system is up. > > > > Of course this doesn't work for boot2, loader or the kernel > > itself. These three components seem to set their console speed > > in some cases arbitrarly. > Yes this seems to be the case. > No matter how hard I try to convince sio.c to default to 57600 > (I even went as far at setting > static volatile speed_t comdefaultrate = CONSPEED; > to 57600) > so there would be no confusion. > I still end up with random console speed each time. > > The boot loader did pick up the speed from /etc/make.conf and > does come up every time at 57600. You also need to modify the /etc/ttys entry to specify std.57600 (see the examples for /dev/ttyd[0-3]) and to set: options CONSPEED=57600 in your config file. -- Terry
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