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WvDial

WvDial

Computer program for assisting modem connections

WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial'[1]) is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions.[2] WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet.[3] It uses the wvstreams library.[4]

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WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.[5]

Graphical frontends

There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial:

  • GNOME-PPP, a GUI dialer for GNOME
  • kppp, a GUI dialer for KDE
  • pyWvDial, a dialer based on PyGTK
  • QtWvDialer based on Qt, by Matthias Toussaint
  • x-wvdial, that uses xmessage[6][7]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    freshmeat.net: Project details for WvDial
  2. [2]
    "Wv Dial". alumnit.ca. Archived from the original on May 4, 2011.
  3. [3]
    "The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial". apenwarr.ca. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  4. [4]
    Wv Streams - open.alumnit.ca
  5. [5]
    chat(8) - Linux man page
  6. [6]
    "X-wvdial".
  7. [7]
    "XMESSAGE(1) manual page".

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