Assuming OpenBSD still shares some similarity to FreeBSD, there are three 
places the speed is set. The one not mentioned so far is the console setting 
for the getty in /etc/ttys. 

-Jed

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Nikola (Nick) Gyurov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It's 'set ConSpeed=9600'.
> Case-sensitive.
> All explained here: https://soekris.com/media/manuals/net6501_manual.pdf
> -
> Regards,
> Nick
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Jeff Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, June 06, 2015 04:20:28 pm Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>>> On 2015-06-06, Jeff Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I have suddenly run into a problem with one of my Soekris net6501 boxes.
>>>> When I first boot it, the com speed is 19200, but just before the boot
>>>> prompt it switches to 9600. This is raising problems with upgrading the
>>>> OS (OpenBSD). Any idea what's wrong, and anything I can do to fix this?
>>> 
>>> That's due to different defaults in the Soekris comBIOS (19200) and
>>> the OpenBSD boot loader (9600).  If you want to switch the latter to
>>> 19200, add
>>> stty com0 19200
>>> to /etc/boot.conf.
>> 
>> Tried that, doesn't work. It goes at 19200 up until the boot prompt, switches
>> to 9600 after, and then goes to 19200 at the login: prompt. Can't read the
>> /etc/boot.conf file until the HD is mounted.
>> 
>>> Alternatively, you could set the comBIOS to
>>> 9600.
>> 
>> How does one do that? I tried several commands after Ctrl-P early in the boot
>> process, but kept getting 'syntax error'.
>> 
>> I have about a dozen net6501s running OpenBSD, and this is the first time 
>> I've
>> seen this.
>> 
>> --
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