Hi again Thanks for a load of replies. At least I know now, why this group is called "freebsd-questions" and not "freebsd-answers".
Regards PM W dniu 5 sierpnia 2011 22:01 użytkownik Paweł Michalicki <perq...@gmail.com>napisał: > Hi > > First, apologies if this is the wrong group to ask my question. I looked > through all the group titles and this one looked suitable. The question is > related to programming under FreeBSD. > > I have a certain device which can be hooked to a PC via RS232 connection. > Since my PC does not have a true COM port, I am using an USB<->COM > converter, which contains the FTDI chip. I wrote a program to handle the > communications via the /dev/cuaU0, and all this works very well. The device > at the other end has an UART which is capable of wild variety of baudrates, > including standard rates of 19200, 38400 and 57600 bits per second. In my > program on FreeBSD I am using that last baudrate. > > However, the "wild variety of baudrates" which can be used includes also > such baudrates as 88, 98, 110 kbps and the highest possible one is 126 kbps > (note: no 115,2 kbps). I'd like to use 126 kbps instead of 57,6 kbps. > > Now, it is possible on Linux using ioctl(TIOCGSERIAL) and > ioctl(TIOCSSERIAL). As I understand, using these you can very precisely > control the serial baudrate on COM ports (or at least on USB ports with an > USB<->COM converter hooked up). Sadly, these do not seem available on > FreeBSD. > > My question is: is there any equivalent of TIOCGSERIAL/TIOCSSERIAL > available on FreeBSD, or maybe there is some special driver I could load and > use? As I've written above, the USB<-> COM converter I use is the FTDI chip, > but the uftdi module does not seem to provide such functionality. I do not > want to write my own kernel module or FTDI device driver just for that > purpose. > > The system is FreeBSD 6.4 but (judging from grep -r TIOCGSERIAL on > /usr/include) this applies to 8.0 as well. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"