diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a78eef8..640a900 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ keywords = ["termios", "tty", "terminal", "posix"]
 
 [dependencies]
 libc = "0.2"
+ioctl-rs = "0.1.5"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 8967b7c..f26643d 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 //! ```
 
 extern crate libc;
+extern crate ioctl_rs as ioctl;
+
 
 use std::io;
 use std::mem;
@@ -171,6 +173,7 @@ impl Termios {
     /// Creates a `Termios` structure based on the current settings of a file descriptor.
     ///
     /// `fd` must be an open file descriptor for a terminal device.
+    #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
     pub fn from_fd(fd: RawFd) -> io::Result<Self> {
         let mut termios = unsafe { mem::uninitialized() };
 
@@ -180,6 +183,25 @@ impl Termios {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Creates a `Termios` structure based on the current settings of a file descriptor.
+    ///
+    /// `fd` must be an open file descriptor for a terminal device.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    pub fn from_fd(fd: RawFd) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let mut termios: Termios = unsafe { mem::uninitialized() };
+
+        // on Linux, we use an ioctl to get the correct data structure
+        let err = unsafe { ioctl::ioctl(fd, os::linux::TCGETS2,
+                                        &mut termios.inner) };
+
+        if err != 0 {
+            return Err(io::Error::last_os_error())
+        }
+
+        Ok(termios)
+    }
+
+
     fn inner(&self) -> &::os::target::termios {
         &self.inner
     }
diff --git a/src/os/linux.rs b/src/os/linux.rs
index 5e535b2..7f9af6f 100644
--- a/src/os/linux.rs
+++ b/src/os/linux.rs
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ pub struct termios {
     pub c_lflag: tcflag_t,
     c_line: cc_t,
     pub c_cc: [cc_t; NCCS],
-    c_ispeed: speed_t,
-    c_ospeed: speed_t
+    pub c_ispeed: speed_t,
+    pub c_ospeed: speed_t,
 }
 
 pub const NCCS: usize = 32;
@@ -178,3 +178,7 @@ pub const TCIOFLUSH: c_int = 2;
 pub const TCSANOW:   c_int = 0;
 pub const TCSADRAIN: c_int = 1;
 pub const TCSAFLUSH: c_int = 2;
+
+// ioctls should be a c_uint, not a c_int. the warning cause by this should
+// be ignore until the bug in ioctl-rs is fixed.
+pub const TCGETS2: c_int = (0x802c_542a as c_int);