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Setting Bitrate for Serial-Over-USB Device to 256000

I need to communicate with a serial-over-USB device which requires a bitrate of 256000 but macOS 11.6.7 (x86) and 12.4 (M1) are refusing to do that. # stty -f /dev/tty.usbserial-141130 256000 stty: tcsetattr: Invalid argument The devic…

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