Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:38:38PM -0600, Donald Lee wrote:
> I am surprised that the modem works, as it is essentially a device that
> hangs off the serial port.  (i.e. there is no modem driver, as far as
> I know, just the serial driver)

You're right.  (I had to check; that's part of the reason for the delay.)
Though in hardware terms the modem has some other connections -- I had to
install a patch to wake it from APM sleep.

> If you have the modem working - at all - that would be good news.

Am I the only person on the list with my configuration?  I would have thought
modem support would be OK by now.  You guys must all be rich enough to have
faster connections, or not have G4s.

> Pppd is broken in 1.5 for dial-in, but I don't remember whether it works
> or not with dial-out.  (There are PRs for the problems...)

I didn't find any Mac-specific bugs relating to ppp, so you had better give
me the PR numbers.  Perhaps they're not specific to the Mac port?

-- Derek