>  2) From within gdb now:
>      set remotebreak 1

Arrrrrrgggghhh!!!  _Now_ I find out about this!!  I wish I had known
about that .... would have saved me TONS of pain!

>My /etc/ttys for tty01 looks like:
>tty01   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure local 
>
>(I seem to recal that the 'local' part was important)

That was my recollection as well .... do you have a breakout box?  Maybe
you need DTR/DCD asserted.

--Ken