[ale] identifying serial ports (which is ttyS0, etc.)?

[Geoffrey]

An easy way is to cat /proc/tty/driver/serial, then use setserial to 
change a particular value, say speed for instance.  Then cat 
/proc/tty/driver/serial again looking for the change.

John Wells wrote:
> I'm trying to my x10 remote setup.
> 
> How can you tell which serial port on a machine is set to /dev/ttyS0,
> /dev/ttyS1, etc?  Is there a way to tell if something is plugged into the
> port?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
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