WvDial

WvDial

Original author(s)	Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun
Stable release	1.61 / September 19, 2009
Operating system	Linux
Type	Internet
License	GNU Lesser General Public License
Website	alumnit.ca

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. It uses the wvstreams library.^[3]

WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log in to a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.^[4]

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^[5][6]

See also

• Hayes command set
• ifconfig
• NetworkManager
• pppconfig
• Point-to-Point Protocol daemon
• USB modem

References

1. freshmeat.net: Project details for WvDial
2. "Wv Dial". alumnit.ca]. Archived from the original on May 4, 2011.
3. Wv Streams - open.alumnit.ca
4. chat(8) - Linux man page
5. http://mac.freecode.com/projects/x-wvdial
6. http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/xmessage.1.html

External links

• Official website
  • wvdial Email list
  • WvDial FAQ
• "wvdial". Freecode.
• "x-wvdial". Freecode.
• wvdial(1) – Linux User Commands Manual
• wvdialconf(1) – Linux User Commands Manual
• wvdial.conf(5) – Linux File Formats Manual
• Using wvdial with a SecurID one-shot password
• Chestnut, an alternative dialer
• eznet, an alternative to WvDial
• OpenNMS Notification usage example