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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

>  I've found a decrepit raq3 that I'm going to resurrect, as soon as I work
> out what's up with the console.
> 
>  I'm using 115200 8n1 with minicom, and I'm getting wierd stuff like:

Should it be 38K4 - a fairly common baudrate for serial port
connections? Though if you are getting this much, the baudrate
may be right. It looks like high ASCII so it may also be worth
playing with the tty type (ANSI/VT etc).

>  So it looks like some sort of setting mismatch. Various places on the web
> say that cobalts are setup with 115200 8n1 serial ports, but someone could
> have changed it on this particular box.

Regards...jmcc


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