Scott Little wrote in a message to andrew clarke:

 SL>  [ 10 May 05 18:38, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little ]


 ac> Hmm, well there's no setserial in FreeBSD.

 SL> Is there anything else that configures a serial port?

 ac>   I have "speed 38400" set
 ac> in mgetty.config though.

 SL> IME under Linux, changing the mgetty config without setserial often
 SL> results is just that kind of garble.  Just like in the old DOS
 SL> days: you had to lock your BBS software and the FOSSIL to the same
 SL> rate or it wouldn't work.  Generally once I setserial'ed it to
 SL> 38400 or higher, it'll work with mgetty at any speed though.  Maybe
 SL> it defaults to 2400 or something; enough for command sequences but
 SL> not data.

Seems to me that one of the ATI commands oughta tell whether that's the
case or not...

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