The best way is to use a breakout box. It gives nice visual feedback. ;)
Anyway that'd be the way I test the serial ports.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller@dslonramp.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:38 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Mouse voodoo?
> 
> 
> Can someone give me a quick way to test my serial ports in 
> Linux?  I can't
> get my Peanut box to recognize my mouse . . . I don't know if 
> it's a bad
> mouse or bad ports . . .  ? ? ? 
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
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