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This chapter is intended to help all people who rely on modems
to maintain their link to the outside world. We won't cover the
mechanics of how to configure your modem (the manual that came with it
will tell you more about it than we can), but we will cover most of
the Linux-specific aspects of managing devices that use serial
ports. Topics include serial communications software, creating the
serial device files, serial hardware, and configuring serial devices
using the <B
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commands. Many other related topics are covered in the Serial HOWTO
by David Lawyer.<A
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