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Using Serial Ports

Check the info of a serial port with stty < /dev/ttyS0 -a where /dev/ttyS0 can be any target serial device.

Similar information can be found with

setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
setserial -a /dev/ttyS0

Set serial port baud rate

stty -F /dev/ttyS2 19200
stty -F /dev/ttyS2 19200

UART: 16550A denotes the specific UART chip on the serial device

Once you get this information you can use minicom to send and receive data over serial by specifying the device and baud rate

minicom -D /dev/ttyS0 -b 9600 (for example)

PTY is fine to emulate TTY devices also

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