The Linux Modem-HOWTO : Other Sources of Information

18. 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 join, 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.)
Ultimate Modem Handbook by Cass R. Lewart, 1998.

Cable-Modem mini-howto
ISDN Howto (not a LDP Howto) http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/isdn.html: drivers for ISDN "Modems". Much related info on this is in German.
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