Modem-HOWTO: Other Sources of Information

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19. Other Sources of Information

man pages for: agetty(8), getty(1m), gettydefs(5), init(1), isapnp(8), login(1), mgetty(8), setserial(8)
Your modem manual (if it exists). Some modems come without manuals.
Serial Suite by Vern Hoxie is a collection of blurbs about the care and feeding of the Linux serial port plus some simple programs.
The Linux serial mailing list. To subscribe, send email to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu, with ``subscribe linux-serial'' in the message body. If you send ``help'' in the message body, you get a help message. The server also serves many other Linux lists. Send the ``lists'' command for a list of mailing lists.

I've been unable to find a good up-to-date book on modems.

The Complete Modem Reference by Gilbert Held, 1997. Contains too much info about obsolete topics. More up-to-date info may be found on the Internet.
Modems For Dummies by Tina Rathbone, 1996. (Have never seen it.)
The Modem Technical Guide by Douglas Anderson, 1996.
Ultimate Modem Handbook by Cass R. Lewart, 1998.
Black, Uyless D.: Physical Layer Interfaces & Protocols, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996.

Cable-Modem mini-howto
SuSE ISDN Howto (not a LDP Howto) http://sol.parkland.cc.il.us/sdb/en/html/isdn.html or http://brenner.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de/doc/sdb/en/html/isdn.html
Linux-Modem-Sharing mini-howto. Computers on a network share a single modem for dial-out (like a shared printer).
Modems-HOWTO: In French (Not used in creating this Modem-HOWTO)
NET-3-4-HOWTO: all about networking, including SLIP, CSLIP, and PPP
PPP-HOWTO: help with PPP including modem set-up
Serial-HOWTO has info on Multiport Serial Cards used for both terminals and banks of modems. Covers the serial port in more detail than in the HOWTO.
Serial-Programming-HOWTO: for some aspects of serial-port programming
Text-Terminal-HOWTO: (including connecting up with modems)
UUCP-HOWTO: for information on setting up UUCP