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.^[3] It uses the wvstreams library.^[4]

WvDial
Original author(s)	Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun
Stable release	1.61 / September 19, 2009
Repository	github.com/wlach/wvdial
Operating system	Linux
Type	Internet
License	GNU Lesser General Public License
Website	alumnit.ca at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-05-04)

WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.^[5]

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^[6][7]

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

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