On Saturday, October 6, 2001, at 11:32  pm, Randy Beaudreault wrote:

> I'm trying to set up ppp according to instructions in the faq but I'm 
> not able to get it up and running according to the information in the 
> faq.  I want to take this one step at a time.  The first thing I have 
> to do is get the modem to go on hook.  I can't get that to happen now.  
> What pppd command could I use to test my modem?
>
> P. S. I'll have more things after I get my modem to dial.

I need to buy a new modem before I can confirm this myself, but Bob has 
a page which certainly made all the right noises when I tried it with a 
broken modem.

Have a glance at: <http://murphy.dyndns.org/NetBSD/ppp_out.html>

Take care,

~ Matthew