[rescue] SS Classic Serial ports

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Wed Apr 23 10:46:15 CDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:29:25AM -0400, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> Someone here was having some problems with OpenBSD on an LX or Classic
> as I recall.... sounded like OpenBSD's serial port driver might have
> not been happy with the LX/Classic serial chip.  Solaris' serial driver
> will of course work, but how well will it keep up.

I rather had NetBSD in mind.  I'm not really that familiar with setting
up NAT type stuff on Solaris.
 
> No matter what, you want to use hardware flow control, and make sure the
> modem is set up that way too (I think used to use AT&C1&D2&K3 ????)
> 
> Sun has not always used the best of serial ports, and I've heard of lots
> of mixed results....  my feeling is it should do it, I just can't say
> wether or not it will do it.

Well, if it doesn't, I have a U1, which should.


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