Bill Hudspeth <wjhud@jps.net> writes:
> > You just use the port device associated with the serial port in
> > question, /dev/whatever.
> 
> I'm not sure whether I'm defeating myself by working through KDE
> when I set the device, in kppp, as /dev/tty01.

a) I'm leery of using tools like kppp -- I'd just do things by hand. I
   have no idea if kppp is properly tuned to deal with NetBSD.
b) dty00 and dty01 are generally used as dialout devices for com0 and com1.

> I can query tty01
> with terminal commands that elicit nothing from the modem. So, 
> somewhere, the symbolic links are broken. 

Are you sure you mean "symbolic links"? I doubt there are any symbolic
links involved in anything you are doing here.

> > "man pppd"
> > Basically, though, you just tell the pppd (in your .ppprc or whatever)
> > what port to open at what speed, and it takes it all from there.
> 
> I'm still looking for .ppprc

You get to write one yourself. By definition, there isn't one
already -- it is the file where you say things like "use this port at
this speed". "man pppd".

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