Just to let everyone know, I got the connection to work by moving the PC
end of the serial cable to my FreeBSD machine from my linux machine.
Maybe there's something weird about the serial port in the linux box.

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Sean Murphy
 Unix Security Underling
  Canadian Bioinformatics Resource
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perl - because life is too short to debug pointers and memory allocation

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > But I don't see how ppp would be different hardware-wise.
> 
> It shouldn't be.  I suspect it's a flow-control problem.
> Sean: I would make sure that the connection looks good and can pass text
> with kermit running on both sides with the same settings:
> 	set speed 9600				equiv. to pppd 9600
> 	set flow-control rts/cts		equiv. to pppd crtscts
> 	set carrier-watch off			equiv. to pppd local
> 
> -allen
> 
>