Brian C. Grayson writes:
>   Ever since I started tracking 1.2-current, PPP has been
> misbehaving.  I can sup and ftp files from other machines fine,
> but when I try to 'put' a file, the first several packets get
> shipped, and then things just sort of hang.
[...]
>   I added the patches to routed as mentioned recently, and it
> doesn't help.  I also downloaded the GENERICOTHER 1.2 kernel,
> and it has the same problems.

I suspect you are having serial problems. Try the unofficial com
patches on the FTP site in arch/i386. If they help, that probably
means that its yet another problem with the serial driver.

Perry