Hardware manual

as well as some of the other HOWTOs. (See Related HOWTO's) This HOWTO lists info on various multiport

serial cards. This HOWTO addresses Linux running on PCs (ISA and/or PCI buses), although it might be

valid for other architectures.

1.1 Copyright, Disclaimer, & Credits

Please freely copy and distribute (sell or give away) this document in any format. Send any corrections and

comments to the document maintainer. You may create a derivative work and distribute it provided that you:

If it's not a translation: Email a copy of your derivative work (in a format LDP accepts) to the

author(s) and maintainer (could be the same person). If you don't get a response then email the LDP

(Linux Documentation Project): submit@en.tldp.org.

License the derivative work in the spirit of this license or use GPL. Include a copyright notice and at

least a pointer to the license used.

Give due credit to previous authors and major contributors.3.

If you're considering making a derived work other than a translation, it's requested that you discuss your plans

with the current maintainer.

Disclaimer

While I haven't intentionally tried to mislead you, there are likely a number of errors in this document. Please

let me know about them. Since this is free documentation, it should be obvious that I cannot be held legally

responsible for any errors.

Trademarks.

Any brand names (starts with a capital letter such as MS Windows) should be assumed to be a trademark).

Such trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Credits

Most of the original Serial-HOWTO was written by Greg Hankins. mailto:gregh@twoguys.org He also

rewrote many contributions by others in order to maintain continuity in the writing style and flow. He wrote:

``Thanks to everyone who has contributed or commented, the list of people has gotten too long to list

(somewhere over one hundred). Special thanks to Ted Ts'o for answering questions about the serial drivers.''

Approximately half of v2.00 was from Greg Hankins HOWTO and the other half were additions by David

Lawyer. Ted Ts'o has continued to be helpful. In Jan. 2006 "Charles Brockman" reviewed it for typos which

resulted in many typos being fixed.

1.2 New Versions of this Serial-HOWTO

New versions will be issued perhaps every year or two. They will be available to browse and/or download at

LDP mirror sites see: 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 http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html and

Serial HOWTO

1. Introduction 6