[SunRay-Users] 2fs serial port: baudrate?

Fri Oct 2 16:02:55 EEST 2009

actually it seems that the sunray works okay with 110baud. 75baud seems a problem, and 50baud i could not test.

can anyone tell what the lowest possible speed of the 2fs serial port?

it is a hardware (uart) or a software (ray firmware / utseriald) limit?

the solaris os seems to know about 50/75baud (/usr/include/sys/termios.h).

niki

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:26:46 +0200
> Von: "Niki W. Waibel" <niki.waibel at gmx.net>
> An: SunRay-Users mailing list <sunray-users at filibeto.org>
> Betreff: Re: [SunRay-Users] 2fs serial port: baudrate?

> www.gudeads.de has actually several devices. complex ones that provide ntp
> and sntp via an ip/enternet network, and very simple devices which
> internally consist of an antenna, some analog/digital logic and a uart.
> 
> i am talking about the latter ones. you can connect such a device to a
> serial port -- set to 50 baud -- and the ntp sw can grab the dcf77 time
> information (and provide ntp/sntp via an an ip/enternet network, but that is not
> what i my question is about).
> 
> problem i see: ntp (and its test program test_dcf) running on the
> solaris/sparc sunray server can't grab the serial data from that device.
> 
> the question is why, and is it possible to fix this.
> 
> reason may be that either
> * the sunray hw (2fs) does not support 50bps
> * the sunray fw (4.2_49) is not able to set the ports hw to 50bps
> * the sunray server/utseriald does not tell the sunray to set the port to
> 50bps
> * or there is some bug in the ntp sw (inproper callings of ioctl)
> 
> niki
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:59:46 -0500
> > Von: "Quayle, Bill" <Bill.Quayle at cmegroup.com>
> > An: SunRay-Users mailing list <sunray-users at filibeto.org>
> > Betreff: Re: [SunRay-Users] 2fs serial port: baudrate?
> 
> > I took a look at what this device does.  From the manual, it appears to
> > support sntp via Ethernet.  I wonder why you wouldn't just point to the
> time
> > source using ntp over the network?  (Though I also didn't see anything
> in
> > the manual that mentioned the baud rate of the serial port...)
> > 
> > ...just curious.
> > 
> > -Bill
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org
> > [mailto:sunray-users-bounces at filibeto.org] On Behalf Of Craig Bender
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:51 AM
> > To: SunRay-Users mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] 2fs serial port: baudrate?
> > 
> > You're using Sun Rays with a Solaris desktop?  Odd. Just kidding.
> > 
> > I've asked some questions to our utseriald engineer.  I'll see what he 
> > responds with.
> > 
> > Niki W. Waibel wrote:
> > > below ...
> > > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > >> Datum: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:39:22 -0700
> > >> Von: Craig Bender <Craig.Bender at Sun.COM>
> > >> An: SunRay-Users mailing list <sunray-users at filibeto.org>
> > >> Betreff: Re: [SunRay-Users] 2fs serial port: baudrate?
> > > 
> > >> Hi Niki,
> > >> Tim is wrong there, it's not true that only 9600 is possible.  What
> you
> > >> are seeing though is the safe mode of utseriald which is 9600, 8, N,
> 1.
> > > 
> > > okay.
> > > 
> > >> However in order to use a different setting the program controlling
> the
> > >> serial device much properly set the port speed.  What program is 
> > >> controlling the device?  I'm guessing it's a windows program?
> > > 
> > > it is ntpd (4.2.4p7) and its companion test program:
> > ntp-4.2.4p7/parseutil/testdcf.c (on solaris, the ray server).
> > > 
> > > testdcf.c works okay with a real physical serial port on a pc with
> > linux, but fails ie on the same hw/os with a prolific usb/serial
> converter
> > (which supports only 75baud and up).
> > > 
> > > 50baud setup is necessary. this is what testdcf.c does:
> > > ===
> > > int baudrate = B50;
> > > cfsetispeed(&term, baudrate);
> > > cfsetospeed(&term, baudrate);
> > > ===
> > > return codes of the cfsetXspeed() functions are okay, but i've doupts
> > that 50 baud setting works on the ray.
> > > 
> > >> Typically in the windows world, developers rely on the end user to
> set 
> > >> the port speeds via control panel vs properly setting the IOCTL's in
> > the 
> > >> code (noted exceptions are things like Palm software that you choose
> > the 
> > >> baud, parity, etc through the program).  This is a problem for remote
> > >> serial connections as there really isn't mechanism for specifying the
> > >> speeds and feeds over RDP.
> > > 
> > > ... it is not about windows or RDP -- the device is directly attached
> to
> > the ray, which displays a CDE solaris/sparc desktop.
> > > 
> > >> The work-around in this case is to set the device to the known safe 
> > >> speed of utserial.
> > > 
> > > the device works with 50baud only. it is impossible to change that.
> > > 
> > >> There's one other workaround which I haven't tried but was suggested
> by
> > >> one of our developers.  Basically you hold the port open with stty.
> > >>
> > >> stty 50 < $DTDEVROOT/unit/dev/term/a
> > > 
> > > this stops the output of the test program:
> > > ===
> > > nwaibel at m5000-1:/tmp/ntp-4.2.4p7/parseutil $ ./testdcf
> > /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.00144f3ba896/dev/term/a 
> > > 
> > >   setting RTS/DTR for GudeADS Expert mouseCLOCK ...
> > > 
> > >   DCF77 monitor 4.11 - Copyright (C) 1993-2006, Frank Kardel
> > > 
> > >   PTB private....RADMLSMin....PHour..PMDay..DayMonthYear....P
> > >   ---------------RADMLS1248124P124812P1248121241248112481248P
> > > | -#################################......................... ***
> > INCOMPLETE                
> > > / ####################....................................... 
> > > ===
> > > 
> > > there should be something else then # ...
> > > 
> > >> A couple of things to remember:
> > >>
> > >> When you hotdesk, the port is automatically reset to 9600, 8, N, 1
> > >> When you hotdesk, the ownership of the port changes
> > >> When you hotdesk, windows expects the speed, stop bits, parity, to be
> > >> the same as when the session was opened.  You're probably going to
> have
> > >> to mess around with utaction to do a pkill on stty on session
> > disconnect 
> > >> and then another stty command upon session connection to get the port
> > >> right again.
> > > 
> > > sure. read that.
> > > 
> > >> Give it a shot and let me know how it goes.
> > > 
> > > done.
> > > 
> > > niki
> > > 
> > >> Niki W. Waibel wrote:
> > >>> hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> i am trying to run a DCF77 serial clock device (www.gudeads.de) on a
> > >> sunray 2fs (without success so far). it seems that device needs a
> > baudrate
> > >> setting of 50.
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> http://ebberstwork.blogspot.com/2008/08/sun-ray-and-peripherals-page-2.html
> > >>> states that only 9600 is possible.
> > >>>
> > >>> can someone confirm / give more info?
> > >>>
> > >>> thanks in advance,
> > >>> niki

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