From: Marc MAURICE (dooblemfree.fr)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 07:57:03 CDT

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Thanks for your response,

I red the tty(4) manpage, and a part of the tip(1) manpage
Now I know the difference between tty and cua devices.

I changed the configuration to tell open3600 to use /dev/cua00 instead
of /dev/tty00.

Unfortunately, the problem is still the same.

Marc MAURICE

>man 4 cua or man 4 tty
>
>Then see the section about cua(4) devices.
>
>And don't use tty's like that. That is what cua devices are for.
>Connecting out.
>
>
>
>>I have a laptop at home which is an old dell latitude xpi p133 st. I use
>>it as a small server, running OpenBSD 3.7. I would like to have my weather
>>station connected to the laptop, serving the weather via http.
>>
>>The weather station is a WS3600, racorded to the server via a serial cable.
>>
>>The program I use to retrieve the info from the station is open3600
>>(http://open3600.fast-mail.nl).
>>
>>To make it work under openbsd, I edited /etc/ttys and changed the line :
>>tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
>>
>>to :
>>tty00 none network on local
>>
>>As open3600 is not available in binary form for OpenBSD, I compiled it.
>>I then configured it to retrieve the info from /dev/tty00.
>>
>>Now when I launch the retrieval of the information, the command takes 30
>>seconds before outputing the result.
>>Each time I execute the command, it takes about 30 seconds, and sometimes
>>the output is right, sometimes it is totally wrong, indicating 0 values.
>>I would say I have 50% chance to get the good parameters.
>>
>>The problem is not hardware, because I tried the command under Debian on
>>the same machine, and it retrieves the information with no problem, in
>>less than 2 seconds.
>>
>>I think the problem is the configuration of the serial port under OpenBSD,
>>but my knowledge in serial devices is rather limited.
>>
>>I ran 'stty -af /dev/tty00' under OpenBSD and 'stty -aF /dev/ttyS0' under
>>Debian and see the modes are a bit differents, but I did not manage to
>>change modes under OpenBSD.
>>
>>'stty -af /dev/tty00' under OpenBSD:
>>
>>speed 9600 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns;
>>lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl
>> -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho -pendin -nokerninfo
>> -extproc -xcase
>>iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr -iuclc ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel
>> -ignbrk brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk
>>oflags: opost onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -olcuc oxtabs -onoeot
>>cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf
>>cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
>> eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V;
>> min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = <undef>;
>> stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W;
>>
>>'stty -aF /dev/ttyS0' under Debian:
>>
>>speed 9600 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0;
>>intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2
>>= <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
>>werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
>>-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts
>>-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon
>>-ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
>>opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0
>>vt0 ff0
>>isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop
>>-echoprt echoctl echoke
>>
>>I don't even know if the problem comes from here.
>>
>>Any help, any reference, any advice is welcomed.
>>
>>Thanks in advance and sorry for my english
>>
>>Marc MAURICE

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