Kalpana Kalpana (Editor)

WvDial

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Operating system
  
Linux

Website
  
alumnit.ca

Type
  
Internet

Original author(s)
  
Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun

Stable release
  
1.61 / September 19, 2009

License
  
GNU Lesser General Public License

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 in to 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
  • pyWvDial, a dialer based on PyGTK
  • QtWvDialer based on Qt, by Matthias Toussaint
  • x-wvdial, that uses xmessage
  • References

    WvDial Wikipedia