Serial Tips And Miscellany 11. If ls is screwing up your terminal emulation with the color feature, turn it off.
Some installations have ls set to use color by default.
Another program that will do this is called xprt . Do this for every serial port you want to auto configure. Be sure to give a device name that really does exist on your machine. For board addresses, and IRQs, look at the rc.serial that comes with the setserial program. Unfortunately, email to the author bounces.