15. Other Sources Of Information

• man pages for: agetty(8), getty(1m), gettydefs(5), init(1), login(1), mgetty(8), setserial(8)
• Your modem or terminal manual
• NET-3 HOWTO: all about networking, including SLIP, CSLIP, and PPP
• PPP HOWTO: help with PPP
• Printing HOWTO: for setting up a serial printer
• Serial-Programming-HOWTO: for some aspects of serial-port programming
• Term HOWTO: everything you wanted to know about the term program
• Text-Terminal-HOWTO: how they work and how to install and configure
• UPS HOWTO: setting up UPS sensors connected to your serial port
• UUCP HOWTO: for information on setting up UUCP
• 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.networking  
   Networking and communications under Linux.
   comp.os.linux.setup       
   Linux installation and system administration.
   comp.terminals
   
  

• 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.
• A white paper discussing serial communications and multiport serial boards is available from Cyclades at http://www.cyclades.com.
• Modem FAQs:
  Navas 28800 Modem FAQ
  Curt's High Speed Modem Page
• Serial programming: Serial-Programming-HOWTO
  Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, by W. Richard Stevens (ISBN 0-201-56317-7; Addison-Wesley)
  http://www.ora.com/catalog/posix/ name="POSIX Programmer's Guide">, by Donald Levine (ISBN 0-937175-73-0; O'Reilly)