diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/docbook/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.sgml
index 3aed359f..6dac96f6 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
Remote Serial Console HOWTO
- v2.5 2003-01-20
+ v2.6 2003-03-31
@@ -29,12 +29,22 @@
+
+ 2.6
+ 2003-03-31
+ gdt
+ Correct opposing CTS/RTS explanations. Use
+ <quote> in markup. TLDP PDF is now good, so remove
+ instructions for rendering PostScript to PDF. Typo in GRUB
+ configuration.
+
2.5
2003-01-20
- gdt Only one console
- per technology type. Setting timezone. Use off parameter rather
- than comments in inittab. Cable lengths.
+ gdt
+ Only one console per technology type. Setting
+ timezone. Use off parameter rather than comments in inittab. Cable
+ lengths.
2.4
@@ -119,8 +129,8 @@
console n. [From
- latin consolatio(n) “comfort,
- spiritual solace.”] A device for displaying or printing
+ latin consolatio(n) comfort,
+ spiritual solace.
] A device for displaying or printing
condolances or obituaries for the operator.
Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Computer
@@ -335,14 +345,14 @@
- Alternative meanings of ‘console’
+ Alternative meanings of console
- Some authors use the word ‘console’ to refer to
+ Some authors use the word console
to refer to
the keyboard and monitor that are attached to the system unit.
- This is described as a ‘physical console’ by some
+ This is described as a physical console
by some
Linux documentation. The
console where system messages appear is described as the
- ‘logical console’ by that documentation.
+ logical console
by that documentation.
As an illustration of the difference, X
Windows should start on the physical console but
@@ -351,10 +361,10 @@
console.
To avoid confusion this HOWTO uses the
- word ‘console’ to describe the place where system
+ word console
to describe the place where system
messages are printed. This HOWTO uses the
- phrase “attached monitor and keyboard” rather than the
- confusing words “physical console”.
+ phrase attached monitor and keyboard
rather than the
+ confusing words physical console
.
These distinctions are also made in the naming of devices.
The device /dev/console is
@@ -364,7 +374,7 @@
class="devicefile">/dev/tty0.
- Different ways of referring to the ‘console’
+ Different ways of referring to the console
@@ -691,9 +701,9 @@ setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
ANSI/TIA/EIA-232-F-1997 Interface
Between Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating
Equipment Employing Serial Data Interchange. For an
- explanation of ‘bits per second’, ‘start
- bits’, ‘data bits’, ‘parity’,
- ‘stop bits’ and ‘flow control’ refer to the
+ explanation of bits per second
, start
+ bits
, data bits
, parity
,
+ stop bits
and flow control
refer to the
Serial-HOWTO
and the Configure the terminal to match the serial parameters. The
data bits, parity bits and stop bits must match. If a modern
- ‘smart’ modem is used then the bit speeds need not
+ smart
modem is used then the bit speeds need not
match. If a dumb modem or a null modem cable is used then the bit
speeds must match.
@@ -1030,9 +1040,9 @@ setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
Your equipment may call
CTS/RTS handshaking or
DTR/DSR handshaking
- ‘hardware handshaking’ and may call
+ hardware handshaking
and may call
XON/XOFF handshaking
- ‘software handshaking’.
+ software handshaking
.
Set automatic line wrapping on. This allows all of a long
console message to be read.
@@ -1090,11 +1100,11 @@ setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
The BIOS takes the interrupt 0x10
- “video” requests used to write to the screen and
+ video
requests used to write to the screen and
sends the characters that would have appeared on the screen to
the serial port. Characters recieved from the serial port are
used to supply characters to BIOS interrupt
- 0x16 “read key” requests.
+ 0x16 read key
requests.
Any 16-bit application which uses the
BIOS functions for outputing text to the
@@ -1146,8 +1156,8 @@ setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
These BIOSs use the serial port for
configuration and the power-on self-test, but do not redirect the
- interrupt 0x10 “video” requests interrupt 0x16
- “read key” requests to the serial port.
+ interrupt 0x10 video
requests interrupt 0x16
+ read key
requests to the serial port.
Some BIOSs which usually redirect all
keyboard and video output to the serial port can be configured in
@@ -1261,8 +1271,8 @@ setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
disk.
As usual with IBM
- PC/AT hardware “loads a boot loader
- from the MBR of the first hard disk” is a
+ PC/AT hardware loads a boot loader
+ from the MBR of the first hard disk
is a
simplification. BIOS settings permitting, the
MBR can be loaded from the first two detected
hard disks of any controller card containing a
@@ -1343,7 +1353,7 @@ setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none port 0x0 irq 0
SYSLINUX. Equivalents to
LILO exist for other processor
architectures, their names are usually some play upon
- ‘LILO’.
+ LILO
.
LILO is documented in the
lilo(8) and
@@ -1736,8 +1746,8 @@ title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-21) single user mode
linkend="configure-boot-loader-syslinux-flowcontrol">.
The behaviours for a correctly-wired null-modem cable or a
- correctly configured modem are marked “Required for full
- RS-232 compliance” in the table. The sum
+ correctly configured modem are marked Required for full
+ RS-232 compliance
in the table. The sum
of these values is 0xab3.