WvDial

WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial') is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions. 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.

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

Graphical frontends

There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial:

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

See also

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

References

External links

• wvdial Email list
• WvDial FAQ
• Using wvdial with a SecurID one-shot password
• Chestnut, an alternative dialer
• eznet, an alternative to WvDial
• OpenNMS Notification usage example