did work

["Justin Miller" <safetypin@xxxxxxx>]

   >As far as i can tell from what you said.. you're not running the PPP
   >Daemon. The command is 'pppd' which acts as the user-land program that
   >commnicates between the serial device and the network layers of the
   >kernel.
   >
   >SO. Lets see:
   >
   >After you get connected and the ppp garbage starts coming ( the
~}#.!}!}!}
   >}4~ and such is the ppp as minicom has interepreted it in ASCII )
   >
   >Anyway.. after it starts doing that, quit without hanging up the modem
and
   >run this command:
   >
   >/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cua0 38400
   >
   >You might need to change that 38400 to whatever the status line in
minicom
   >reports as the port speed (i think it defaults to 38400)
   >
   >After you run that, switch to another tty and try running ping and such.
   >If this works, then we can work on automating all this crap :P
   >
   >Oh, one more thing, make sure you're running pppd as root.
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After I did eventually connected with minicom I closed without reset and did
that command. And ifconfig and ping did work after that.

I would really like to automate this crap. I would like to put root and the
user I created for myself into the PPP group so I can use PPP when Im not
root.

Thanks for your help!

	Justin Miller