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]

WvDial
Original author(s)Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun
Stable release
1.61 / September 19, 2009
Repository
Operating systemLinux
TypeInternet
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License
Websitealumnit.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]
gollark: <@102436520559910912> That's just an anonymous async function, so yes, it won't run if you don't do anything with it.
gollark: To just waste CPU cycles, this has worked for me before when I wanted to do that for some evil reason or other, but it's probably not very sound:```cvolatile long long int i = 0;while (i < [a big number]) { i++; }```
gollark: Oh right, probably.
gollark: If you do just need to make it do something for a bit, maybe just```cfor (int i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {}```or something would work, though compilers are getting crafty and might optimize it.
gollark: Is there some reason you can't just use whatever language's equivalent of `sleep(1)` or something?

See also

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
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