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Date:      Sun,  5 Dec 1999 12:00:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      hgoldste@mpcs.com
To:        courtney@whtz.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial Port
Message-ID:  <19991205170005.B3C83208@cally.south.mpcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <8525683E.0015802C.00@mail.whtz.com>
References:  <8525683E.0015802C.00@mail.whtz.com>

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In mpc.lists.freebsd.questions, you wrote:
 : 
 : 
 : hey everyone- I have FreeBSD installed on an i386 machine and want to start
 : using it to communicate with devices via it's serial ports.  What device
 : would they be referred to as under FreeBSD.  (eg. what is com1 and com2
 : called?  ie. /dev/???)

com1 is /dev/cuaa0

 : also how would I set the port to communicate at 9600 7 Even 1?? Can someone
 : give me the string to enter at the command line to do this??


stty -f /dev/cuaia0 9600 parenb cs7

cu -l /dev/cuaa0 will get you a uucp-style terminal program interface
to cuaa0 to test your settings with.  Might also try the minicom port
if a more full-featured term program is needed


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