18.  Other Sources of Information

  18.1.  Misc


  ·  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.


  18.2.  Books

  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.


  18.3.  HOWTOs

  ·  Cable-Modem mini-howto

  ·  ISDN Howto (not a LDP Howto)
     http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/isdn.html: drivers for ISDN
     "Modems".  Much related info on this is in German.

  ·  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


  18.4.  Usenet newsgroups

  ·  comp.os.linux.answers FAQs, How-To's, READMEs, etc. about Linux.

  ·  comp.os.linux.hardware Hardware compatibility with the Linux
     operating system.

  ·  comp.os.linux.setup Linux installation and system administration.

  ·  comp.dcom.modems Modems for all OS's


  18.5.  Web Sites

  ·  Modem List of modems which work/don't_work under Linux
     http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

  ·  Linux Serial  Driver home page http://serial.sourceforge.net/
     Includes info about support for PCI modems.

  ·  Hayes AT modem commands Technical Reference for Hayes (tm) Modem
     Users http://www-dcg.fnal.gov/Net/HYSTRM20.TXT

  ·  AT Command Set and Register Summary for Analog Modem Modules
     (Cisco)
     http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_mod/cis3600/analogfw/analogat.htm

  ·  Controlling your Modem with AT Commands
     http://www.zoltrix.com/modem/USEMODEM.HTM

  ·  Modem FAQs:
     Navas 28800-56K Modem FAQ http://modemfaq.home.att.net/

  ·  Curt's High Speed Modem Page
     http://www.teleport.com/~curt/modems.html

  ·  Much info on 56k modems 56k Modem = v.Unreliable
     http://808hi.com/56k/

  ·  Links to modem manufacturers
     http://www.56k.com/links/Modem_Manufacturers/

  ·  More Links to modem manufacturers http://modmes.rosenet.net/

  ·  Identifying modems by FCC ID
     http://www.sbsdirect.com/fccenter.html

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