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Try using the args property:

<node name="setuart2" pkg="base_controller" type="setuart2" args="on"/>

But also note that roslaunch assumes that any nodes listed are ROS nodes, and silently passes additional __name and __log parameters to your program (which ROS nodes handle correctly).

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