diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
index cb256d9a..0d08a681 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
@@ -4119,7 +4119,7 @@ Addresses Linux localization issues specific to Serbian users
 Serial-HOWTO</ULink>,
 <CiteTitle>Serial HOWTO</CiteTitle>
 </Para><Para>
-<CiteTitle>Updated: September 2003</CiteTitle>.
+<CiteTitle>Updated: October 2003</CiteTitle>.
 Describes serial port features other than those which should be
 covered by other HOWTOs. Lists information on multiport serial cards
 and contains detailed technical information about the serial port
diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml
index 0b56a4bc..c1da5131 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ SCSI-Generic-HOWTO</ULink> for more current information.</emphasis> </Para>
 Serial-HOWTO</ULink>,
 <CiteTitle>Serial HOWTO</CiteTitle>
 </Para><Para>
-<CiteTitle>Updated: September 2003</CiteTitle>.
+<CiteTitle>Updated: October 2003</CiteTitle>.
 Describes serial port features other than those which should be
 covered by other HOWTOs. Lists information on multiport serial cards
 and contains detailed technical information about the serial port
diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Serial-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Serial-HOWTO.sgml
index 4d5d2e6a..ef3caa90 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Serial-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Serial-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 <author>David S.Lawyer
   <tt><htmlurl url="mailto:dave@lafn.org" name="dave@lafn.org"></tt>
   original by Greg Hankins
-<date> v2.19 September 2003 
+<date> v2.20 October 2003 
 
 <!--  Change log:
+v2.20 MAKEDEV is often only in /sbin and not in /dev.
 v2.19 linux-serial email now at kernel.org, new section: Servers,
 pinout diagram
 v2.18 May 2003: EIA-485 features not supported by Linux, Flow control
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ sites see: <url url="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html">.
 Various formats are available.  If you only want to quickly check the
 date of the latest version look at <url
 url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html"> and compare
-it to this version: v2.19 September 2003 .
+it to this version: v2.20 October 2003 .
 
 <sect1>New in Recent Versions
 <p> For a full revision history going back to the time I started
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ maintaining this HOWTO, see the source file (in linuxdoc format) at
 url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/sgml/Serial-HOWTO.sgml.gz">.
 
 <itemize>
+<item>v2.20 Oct. 2003: MAKEDEV is often only in /sbin and not in /dev.
 <item>v2.19 September 2003: linux-serial email now at kernel.org, new
 section: Servers, pinout diagram
 <item>v2.18 May 2003: EIA-485 features not supported by Linux, Flow control
@@ -1029,15 +1031,22 @@ serial package.  You may need to create these devices (unless an
 installation script does it for you).  Either use the <tt/mknod/
 command, or the <tt/MAKEDEV/ script.  Devices (in the /dev directory)
 for ttyS type serial ports are made by adding ``64 + port number''.
-So, if you wanted to create devices for <tt>ttyS17</tt>, you would
-type:
+So, if you wanted to create devices for <tt>ttyS17</tt> using
+<tt/mknod/, you would type:
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 linux# mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS17 c 4 81
 </verb></tscreen>
+
 Note the "major" number is always 4 for ttyS devices (and 5 for the
 obsolete cua devices).  Also ``64 + 17 = 81''.  Using the <tt/MAKEDEV/
-script, you would type:
+script, you would first become the superuser (root) and type either:
+
+<tscreen><verb>
+linux# MAKEDEV ttyS17
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+or if the above doesn't work type:
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 linux# cd /dev
@@ -1053,6 +1062,21 @@ some different links.
 
 <sect1>Standard PC Serial Cards
 
+<p> In olden days PCs came with a serial card installed.  Later on the
+serial function was put on the hard-drive interface card.  Today, one
+or two serial ports are usually built into the motherboard.  Most of
+them (as of 2001) use a 16550 but some use 16650 (32-byte FIFOs).
+
+linux# cd /dev
+For the names and numbers of other types of serial ports other than
+ttyS.. see devices.txt in the kernel documentation.  Besides the
+listing of various brands of multiports found in this HOWTO there is
+<url url="http://eupedia.org/serialcards.html" name="Gary's
+Encyclopedia - Serial Cards">.  It's not as complete, but may have
+some different links.
+
+<sect1>Standard PC Serial Cards
+
 <p> In olden days PCs came with a serial card installed.  Later on the
 serial function was put on the hard-drive interface card.  Today, one
 or two serial ports are usually built into the motherboard.  Most of
@@ -2250,14 +2274,17 @@ script.  Example, suppose you needed to create <tt/ttyS0/:
 <tscreen><verb>
 linux# mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
 </verb></tscreen>
-You can use the <tt/MAKEDEV/ script, which lives in <tt>/dev</tt>.
-See the man page for it.  This simplifies the making of devices.  For
-example, if you needed to make the devices for <tt>ttyS0</tt> you
-would type:
+The MAKEDEV script is easier to use.
+See the man page for it.  For example, if you needed to make the
+device for <tt>ttyS0</tt> you would just type:
+
 <tscreen><verb>
-linux# cd /dev
-linux# ./MAKEDEV ttyS0
+linux# MAKEDEV ttyS0
 </verb></tscreen>
+
+If the above command doesn't work (and your are the root user), look
+for the MAKEDEV script in the the /dev directory and run it.
+
 This handles the devices creation and should set the correct permissions.
 For making multiport devices see <ref id="make_multi" name="Making
 multiport devices in the /dev directory">.
@@ -2902,8 +2929,8 @@ But by the year 2000, most new serial ports supported higher speeds of
 seldom uses these speeds due to lack of drivers.  Thus such ports
 behave just like 115.2k ports unless the higher speeds are enabled by
 special software.  To get these speeds you need to compile the kernel
-with special patches until support is built into the kernel's serial
-driver.
+with special patches or use modules until support is built into the
+kernel's serial driver.
 
 Unfortunately serial port manufacturers never got together on a
 standard way to support high speeds, so the serial driver needs to
@@ -2911,7 +2938,10 @@ support a variety of hardware.  Once high speed is enabled, a standard
 way to choose it is to set baud_base to the highest speed with
 setserial (unless the serial driver does this for you).  The software
 will then use a divisor of 1 to set the highest speed.  All this will 
-hopefully be supported by the Linux kernel sometime in 2002.
+hopefully be supported by the Linux kernel sometime in 2003.
+
+A driver for the w83627hf chip (used on many motherboards such as 
+the Tyan S2460) is at <url url="https://www.muru.com/linux/w83627hf/">
 
 A non-standard way that some manufacturers have implemented high speed
 is to use a very large number for the divisor to get the high speed.
@@ -3634,12 +3664,12 @@ being used, there is no bug.  See
 
 
 
-<sect1> Port get characters only sporadically
+<sect1> Port gets characters only sporadically
 <p> There could be some other program running on the port.  Use "top"
-(provided you've set it to display the port number) or "ps -alxw".
-Look at the results to see if the port is being used by another
-program.  Be on the lookout for the gpm mouse program which often runs
-on a serial port.
+(provided you've set it to display the port number) or type "ps
+-alxw".  Look at the results to see if the port is being used by
+another program.  Be on the lookout for the gpm mouse program which
+often runs on a serial port.
 
 <sect1> Troubleshooting Tools
 <p> These are some of the programs you might want to use in
@@ -3669,7 +3699,7 @@ troubleshooting:
 <sect1> Almost all characters are wrong; Many missing or many extras
 <p>Perhaps a baud mismatch.  If one port sends at twice the speed that
 the other port is set to receive, then every two characters sent will
-be recieved as one character.  The bits of this received character
+be received as one character.  The bits of this received character
 will be a sample of every other bit of the two characters sent, so it
 will be wrong.  Also, only half the characters sent seem to get
 received.  A worse mismatch will produce even worse results.
@@ -4054,7 +4084,7 @@ Pin #	Pin #	Acronym	 Full-Name   Direction	What-it-May-Do/Mean
  5	 7	SG	Signal Ground
 
   9-Pin DB9 Connector                    25-Pin DB-25 Connector
-1     DCD   Carrier Detect             1           Chasis Ground             
+1     DCD   Carrier Detect             1           Chassis Ground             
 2     RxD   Receive Data               2     TxD   Transmit Data
 3     TxD   Transmit Data              3     RxD   Receive Data
 4     DTR   Data Terminal Ready        4     RTS   Request To Send