Hi all, I figured out after much browsing of the web,, that the command I needed to run to get pppd working on boot is setserial /dev/ttys0 Once I did that, and rebooted,, of it went... you have no idea how much hair I pulled out over this,, linux conf (or netcfg with redhat) appeared to do it by itself... mandrake wasn't.. anyway, its working now,, I am estatic... many thanks to all that helped.
