Re: Which baud?

2000-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:24:45PM +0100, David Wright wrote: Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My the permissions for /dev/ups - /dev/ttyS2 are: crw-rw 1 root root 4, 66 Jun 4 13:54 /dev/ttyS2 $sudo stty -a /dev/ttyS2 bash: /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am confused about what is exactly meant by the instruction in the documentation of my UPS: Port must be set to run at 2400 baud Yes, it would have been more sensible to write 2400 baud/bps, as they're the same for a port. According to the

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: Yes, it would have been more sensible to write 2400 baud/bps, as they're the same for a port. Not for an asynchronous port. The baud rate is symbols per second and counts the start, stop, and parity bits (if any). bps is data bits per second and usually works out to 80%

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for the explanations everybody. On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:18:05PM +0100, David Wright wrote: I think I warned you not to use the -F switch in my first posting to you. If you need to convince yourself, try typing the line you have typed above into a VC and an xterm. Then try and

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My the permissions for /dev/ups - /dev/ttyS2 are: crw-rw 1 root root 4, 66 Jun 4 13:54 /dev/ttyS2 $sudo stty -a /dev/ttyS2 bash: /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied I have $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64

Which baud?

2000-06-08 Thread Johann Spies
I am confused about what is exactly meant by the instruction in the documentation of my UPS: Port must be set to run at 2400 baud According to the Serial-HOWTO.gz it seems to me that even fast serial port run at 2400 baud: baud The baud rate is a measure of how many times per second

Re: Which baud?

2000-06-08 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:57:09PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I am confused about what is exactly meant by the instruction in the documentation of my UPS: Port must be set to run at 2400 baud According to the Serial-HOWTO.gz it seems to me that even fast serial port run at 2400 baud: