Colin, I finally got around to figuring how RedHat is doing this in the newer Fedora Cores and created the attached utility that prints out the serial device and baud rate using the TIOCGSERIAL ioctl.
Bryan ** Attachment added: "Utility to display the serial device and baud rate of /dev/console" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4738318/getserialdev.c -- [ia64] No serial entry in inittab after serial install https://launchpad.net/bugs/48752 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
