WvDial
{{Short description|Computer program for assisting modem connections}}
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| name = WvDial
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| author = Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun
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| latest release version = 1.61
| latest release date = September 19, 2009
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| operating system = Linux
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| genre = Internet
| license = GNU Lesser General Public License
| website = {{web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504183753/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial|title=alumnit.ca}}
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WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial'[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wvdial/ freshmeat.net: Project details for WvDial]) is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions.{{cite web|url=http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial |title=Wv Dial |publisher=alumnit.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504183753/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial |archive-date=May 4, 2011 }} WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet.{{cite web|access-date=2023-07-11|title=The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial|url=https://apenwarr.ca/log/20091224|website=apenwarr.ca}} It uses the wvstreams library.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100823123930/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvStreams Wv Streams - open.alumnit.ca]
WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.[http://linux.die.net/man/8/chat chat(8) - Linux man page]
Graphical frontends
There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial:
- GNOME-PPP, a GUI dialer for GNOME
- kppp, a GUI dialer for KDE
- {{Not a typo|pyWvDial}}, a dialer based on PyGTK
- QtWvDialer based on Qt, by Matthias Toussaint
- x-wvdial, that uses xmessage{{Cite web|url=http://mac.freecode.com/projects/x-wvdial|title = X-wvdial}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/xmessage.1.html|title = XMESSAGE(1) manual page}}
See also
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
References
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External links
{{web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504183753/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial|title=Official website}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090609004923/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=MailingLists&redirect_from=MailingList wvdial Email list]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090609004950/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDialFAQ WvDial FAQ]
- {{Freshmeat|wvdial|wvdial}}
- {{Freshmeat|x-wvdial|x-wvdial}}
- {{man|1|wvdial|die.net}}
- {{man|1|wvdialconf|die.net}}
- {{man|5|wvdial.conf|die.net}}
- [http://tardus.net/securIDdialup.html Using wvdial with a SecurID one-shot password]
- [https://www.google.com/search?q=Chestnut+Dialer Chestnut], an alternative dialer
- [http://www.hwaci.com/sw/eznet/eznet.html eznet], an alternative to WvDial
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090326080045/http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Configuring_notifications#Simple_Phone_Call OpenNMS Notification usage example]
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