Re: Serial (RS232) communication - failing to detect stop bit

On 2007-09-12, arka.n.roy <arka.n.roy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have come to the conclusion that there is something fishy about the
serial driver in Gentoo.

You are wrong. I've used serial ports extensively for several
years under Gentoo (and for many years before that under
various other distros going back about 15 years).

There is nothing wrong with the Linux serial driver (Gentoo or
otherwise).

Below I describe the tests that led me to this conclusion.

[...]

The terminal software used was Minicom on Gentoo, and
HyperTerminal on Windows.

Hyperterminal is utter crap. Tests done using hyperterminal
are inadmissable. I've had occasional weird issues with
minicom as well (but it's still a lot better then HT).

Get something like teraterm pro for Win32 and CKermit for Linux.

[...]

So this leaves me with the conclusion that there is something flawed
in Gentoo itself.

I don't beleive it. I've been using serial ports every day
under Gentoo for years and have never seen any problems.

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