opened /dev/tts/N and set its baud rate to 115200 (if you need to see the code i can email it to you). ran stty -F /dev/ttsN and was told it was at 38400. connected serial port to a windows box running hyper term. got sane transfers when i set the windows box to 4800 - posative its not the windows box thats got it wrong :/
You failed to provide emerge --info If you are not running a vanilla kernel, please try that as well
use `setserial` if you cant program it yourself