John Hasler writes: >I just tried it: works fine for me. Do you have minicom set up for 8N1? Yes, but when I checked that I saw the problem. Baud was set to 57600, but I was using 38400 in the pppd command. As long as they match, it works. That was a lot of effort to find a simple solution to an inconsequential problem. I thank you. David Densmore <dden@rollanet.org>