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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:11:22PM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote:
> I have a serial device that works at 2400 baud and I need to access it
> from a script. How can I set the baud rate of my serial port before
> accessing the device?
>
> I've tried setserial but I get this result
>
> #> setserial /dev/ttyS0 baud_base 2400
> Cannot set serial info: Invalid argument
setserial is for low level hardware configuration like telling
the kernel the finer differences between uart variations.
On a modern kernel running over modern hardware you should almost
never be running setserial, certainly NOT for trying to change
the baud rate, parity or any of the regular serial port settings.
- Tel
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