WvDial
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]
Original author(s) | Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun |
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Stable release | 1.61
/ September 19, 2009 |
Repository | |
Operating system | Linux |
Type | Internet |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
Website | alumnit.ca |
WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into 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]
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gollark: It's the alt.
gollark: Is it? How?
gollark: It's <@677461592178163712>.
gollark: ...
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- "wvdial". Freecode.
- "x-wvdial". Freecode.
- – Linux User Commands Manual
- – Linux User Commands Manual
- – 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
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