>> My goal is to get this hardware setup so that I can dial in
>> with my Newton MessagePad. I can get the MessagePad to work
>> fine dialing in to another ISP so that computer is known to
>> work.
>>
>> What I don't know how to do is get the Mac IIcx to answer the
>> phone under NetBSD. I've looked at mgetty, but the standard
>> ditribution mentions a seporate BSD port. All I can find on
>> that is a FreeBSD port. (By the way, is there any support for
>> the FreeBSD port system in NetBSD?)
>>
>> So what can I use for dial up support?
>
>A dial-up shell is REAL easy.....dial-up PPP is another story, I haven't
>tried it.  All I can say is read lots of man pages and hope :)
>
>                Kevin Ogden

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

>From reading a few articles on how to set up dial-up PPP, the first step is
always setting up a dial up shell. But that is where I'm getting stuck. Can
you help?


Eric Damien Berna
eric@thiel.com