Ok, so here's a dumb question: does anyone know which device corresponds
to the modem on an iMac?  I presume tty01, but I'm just guessing.  Second
question: has anyone been able to get the modem working on an iMac?  I've
spent some time with cu, but I havent been able to elicit a response.

	Andrew

Andrew Howard                           email: ahoward@pollux.usc.edu
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Donald Lee wrote:

> I don't know anything about the internal modems on the newer machines, but
> I can tell you that pppd in NetBSD 1.5 has two problems:
> 
> The first is that it has trouble with negotiation of IPs if you have the
> wrong options.  I *believe* that this won't bite you if you're doing outbound
> ppp.
> 
> The second is that the kernel has a bug deep in the bowels of the interrupt handling machinery that makes PPP very sluggish.
> 
> If you can get the modem to work, and your ppp connections either don't
> negotiate PPP properly or are sluggish once up, then I think workarounds
> are available.
> 
> -dgl-
> 
> At 2:06 AM -0600 1/28/01, Andrew Howard wrote:
> >Hi folks:
> >
> >I'm looking for a clarification regarding PPP and NetBSD 1.5 (about which
> >there has been much recent traffic).  My two basic questions are:
> >   1. Can I use an internal modem, or is this broken?
> >   2. Does pppd work, or is this broken?
> >I have been trying to establish a basic dial-up connection on my iMac DV,
> >but have been unable to elicit any response from the built-in modem...
> >
> >	Thanks,
> >		Andrew
> >
> >Andrew Howard                           email: ahoward@pollux.usc.edu
> >Department of Computer Science          http:  www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward 
> >University of Southern California       phone: 1 (213) 740 6416
> >Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. 90089-0781      fax:   1 (213) 740 7512
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> 
> 
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