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 Includes info about support for PCI modems.
• Hayes AT modem commands Technical Reference for Hayes (tm) Modem Users
• AT Command Set and Register Summary for Analog Modem Modules (Cisco)
• Controlling your Modem with AT Commands
• Modem FAQs:
  Navas 28800-56K Modem FAQ
• Curt's High Speed Modem Page
• Much info on 56k modems 56k Modem = v.Unreliable
• Links to modem manufacturers
• More Links to modem manufacturers
• Identifying modems by FCC ID