Help with //e, super serial, Hayes 1200, ext. 80 column card

[phil@calhoun.spa.umn.edu (Philip Karl Roban)]

Trying to get a friend's //e set up as a terminal.
Using the above hardware.
I can talk to the modem, using built-in SSC term emulator.
In 40 column mode, I cannot get lowercase to echo back from the the modem.
I cannot login to my dialup server, so I don't think that lowercase
is even making it to the modem.
In 40 or 80 column mode, also, the first two characters of each line
are getting lost. 
These problems occur at 300 or 1200 baud.

Anyone know what I'm missing?
Or know of a basic/assembler cheezy terminal prog I can keypunch in?

Thanks

Philip K. Roban