>Speaking as a user, whatever is done please just make tip work again with
>an offline modem.  It's a pain in the ass to have to reboot into DOS every
>time I want to dialup my SLIP server, esp. since it drops carrier occasionally
>while I'm using it with NetBSD.

as i've said before here, if you need the solution "yesterday",
just DTRT with the COM_SW_SOFTCAR flag.


cgd

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