Re: //C serial port driving me batty

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Saturday, September 22, 2012 6:48:41 PM UTC-5, Michael Black wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Kevin wrote:
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> > whenever I send data out of my //c's modem port the 8th data bit (to the 
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> > left) is always a 1
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> > so if I type H instead of getting 72 on the other side I get 200, and 
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> > its driving me nutty ... any clues on why this is happening?
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> You have got it set for 8bits?
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> Wasn't it the IIC that used the wrong frequency for the UART, so there was 
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> a timing problem at higher speeds?  It used an existing clock, the fix was 
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> to run it off its own crystal if I remember properly.
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> Not sure if that's the problem, but worth looking into.
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>    Michael

the thing is it will do it at 300 baud as well as 9600, and yea I set it to 8 bits, though default is 8 I set it again