2005-03-08 04:41:31

by Gene Heskett

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Subject: setserial is lieing to us, how to fix?

Greetings;

I'm on the horn with another linux user, and we have a question re the
setserial command. Its reporting the base baud rate, but not the
actual. We need to know the actual settings in use at the moment for
a serial port. How can we discover this?

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2005-03-08 05:05:23

by Alan Curry

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Subject: Re: setserial is lieing to us, how to fix?

Gene Heskett writes the following:
>
>I'm on the horn with another linux user, and we have a question re the
>setserial command. Its reporting the base baud rate, but not the
>actual. We need to know the actual settings in use at the moment for
>a serial port. How can we discover this?

stty speed -F /dev/ttyXY

The setserial spd_* options can affect speed but they are obsolete so you
shouldn't be using them. If stty says 38400 then the setserial spd_* is in
effect. If spd_normal, then 38400 means 38400. If spd_hi, then 38400 means
57600. If spd_vhi, then 38400 means 115200. If spd_shi, then 38400 means
230400. If spd_warp, then 38400 means 460800. Then there's spd_cust, which is
more weird.

2005-03-08 06:00:34

by Gene Heskett

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Subject: Re: setserial is lieing to us, how to fix?

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 00:05, Alan Curry wrote:
>Gene Heskett writes the following:
>>I'm on the horn with another linux user, and we have a question re
>> the setserial command. Its reporting the base baud rate, but not
>> the actual. We need to know the actual settings in use at the
>> moment for a serial port. How can we discover this?
>
>stty speed -F /dev/ttyXY
>
Just what the doctor ordered, many thanks.

>The setserial spd_* options can affect speed but they are obsolete
> so you shouldn't be using them. If stty says 38400 then the
> setserial spd_* is in effect. If spd_normal, then 38400 means
> 38400. If spd_hi, then 38400 means 57600. If spd_vhi, then 38400
> means 115200. If spd_shi, then 38400 means 230400. If spd_warp,
> then 38400 means 460800. Then there's spd_cust, which is more
> weird.
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