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From: buckwild@u.washington.edu (Mark Tamola)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help needed to set up Seyon 2.14 for DSI Softmodem in FreeBSD 1.0.2
Date: 14 Mar 1994 03:28:06 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Message-ID: <2m0lk6$dmp@news.u.washington.edu>
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To whom it may concern,

I recently downloaded Seyon 2.14 from the packages directory at 
freebsd.cdrom.com, and it works fine in most respects, except for one 
important thing:  after dialing and connecting (I can tell by the modem 
sounds), there doesn't seem to be any incoming information.  In other 
words, I can't see any characters coming in, and I really can't tell if I 
am connected at all.

I set up my modem correctly, and I used the sample startup script that 
came with the package (I haven't added any of my own stuff to it).  Am I 
missing a certain command or something that I should have typed, or some 
option that should be in the startup script?

I don't know if it's relevant to the problem or not, but I have a DSI 
9600/144+ softmodem.  This means that since the drivers for it are only 
written in DOS, I have to first boot up in DOS, and then warm-boot to 
FreeBSD, which should still leave the modem-info intact on the chip.  Are 
there any special things that I should try because I am using a 
softmodem?

I think that the main problem is that I don't have my startup script 
configured correctly, but since I am kind of a neophyte to communications 
within FreeBSD, I'm not fully knowledgable of all the options that must 
be set from the command line, and the startup script for Seyon.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

---> Mark Steven de Sagun Tamola
---> buckwild@u.washington.edu