>> Thanks for your feedback.  I may stick to good old fassioned
>> serial modems then, despite their relatively high cost.
>
>That's safer.  Not because the USB modem driver doesn't work, but
>because most USB modems are "winmodems" that the driver cannot handle.

Just for the record ... the one USB modem I tried "just worked" with NetBSD.
Maybe I got lucky.

--Ken