>I decided to go the *** SIMPLE *** route first and get tip to work
>then move on to PPP (I have PPP on a sun at work).  Yeah right. A
>colleague at work has an older computer and has tip and PPP working fine
>on his POS computer.  Arghhh!
>
>Well,  I set everything up fine as explained in all the FAQ's and man pages.
>I set my port (tty00) to 666 uucp.dialer, made sure tip was 4511 uucp.dialer,
>made sure the lock directory existed and edited my remote file to make it
>correct.  
>
>Now to try tip - wait about 10 seconds - "link down" - no [connected]
>try cu - ah [connected] - try atdt - oooohhhh "cu: write: Input/Output
>error"  - damn. I then asked my friend at work for his setup.  All files,
>permissions, ... were the same.

This error you're getting is because there isn't carrier asserted on these
lines.  You either have to set "softcar" in /etc/ttys, or put the following
in /etc/uucp/port (this will make "cu" work):

port tty01
 type modem
 device /dev/tty01
 speed 57600

>1) NetBSD 1.0 thinks my B: floppy (1.2 MB) is a 720KB drive - this was not
>   a problem in 0.9

Hmmm ... my understanding was that NetBSD gets the drive values out of the
settings in the BIOS - what does your BIOS say?

>2) I receive a warning/message?? stating that i have an "unknown AT&T
>   type board code 15"  I take it this is my SB PRo sound card.  Could
>   this be conflicting with tip???

This is really a red herring - this message comes from the "ie" ethernet
driver - it wasn't able to detect the ethernet card (presumably because you
don't have an AT&T ethernet card :-) ).  You can either ignore it, or build
a custom kernel without the "ie" ethernet card.

--Ken