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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@gl.umbc.edu>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Sandip Srivastava wrote:

> I am not connected to a network and have no network card in my pc.  I do 
> have a 14400 internal modem on com1 irq4 in my pc.
> 
> When I run "seyon", I get the following messages:
> 
> Warning:  Could not execute `seyon-emu.
> Notice:  Falling to `xterm'.
> 
> Modem initialization routine failed
> 
> What's wrong here?

The modem initialization failed.  

Try running seyon as:

seyon -modems /dev/cuaa0

You can put the modems information in an X resource; see the seyon man 
page for info.  

> I have run "ppp" and am able to make a connection using "term", but 
> things don't work properly.  The automatic dial routine does not work.  
> When I do get connected manually by using the "atdt" commands, I am not 
> able to ping any hosts even by using their IP addresses.  Packets are 
> transmitted, but none are received.  What could be wrong?

You need to modify the script in /etc/ppp.conf to fit your provider's needs.

For the broken packets, make sure the routing is OK.  Check netstat -rn.

> I connect to the "PPP" line as follows:

You need to make a new login script in /etc/ppp.conf.  check out 
/etc/ppp.conf or the ppp man page.

> Help would be appreciated on how to configure "User PPP", and on how to 
> make "seyon" run.

Try what I've written and look at the man pages.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major