I said:
> The problem is that the way the i386-ports is doing e.g. C-Kermit does not
> work because it is trying to set the serial port's speed before dialing.

I forgot:
A chat script can't work this way, too. Because chat must be able to send
commands to the modem before carrier is set. But the actual com driver
will just block because carrier is not set. :-(

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Matthias Scheler
tron@colwyn.owl.de