Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Replacing a 16C550 with a 16C650 | From | "Rene H. Larsen" <> | Date | 29 Nov 1999 23:42:35 +0100 |
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This question is more hardware related than Linux related, but I hope it is not too off-topic for this list.
I will soon be in need of a high-speed serial port (at least 230.4 kbps) since I'll be switching to ISDN in the near future and want to take full advantage of the improved speed of the connection. My Internet gateway box has an older model Super-I/O chip which does not support speeds above 115.2 kbps.
I could go out and buy a brand new serial board with a 16C650 or 16C750 chip, but I happen to have an old serial board with a ST16C550CP (recognized as a 16550A in Linux) chip lying around and figured I could save a few bucks by getting a 16C650 chip from an electronics dealer and simply exchange the two chips. The chip is seated in a standard 40-pin DIP socket and the board contains a 18.432 MHz crystal as well as a few TTL chips.
Will this work?
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