50 baud is dead

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Jul 13 16:29:15 UTC 2008


On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>>>> It turns out that uplcom(4) adapters don't support the required
>>>> speed of 50 baud anymore.
>>>
>>> You know, it might actually support it if you hack up the driver.
>>> The source says the PL2303X "can set any rate".
>>
>> The data sheet disagrees.
>>
>> "The flexible baud rate generator of PL-2303X could be programmed to
>>  generate any rate between 75 bps and 6Mbps."
>
> I guess you're out of luck then :(

Or just try it at 75 and see if there's enough slop to read the 50 baud 
data.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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