{{Short description|Computer program for assisting modem connections}} {{Infobox software | name = WvDial | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | author = Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun | developer = | released = | latest release version = 1.61 | latest release date = September 19, 2009 | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | operating system = Linux | platform = | 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}} }} '''WvDial''' (pronounced 'weave-dial'<ref>[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wvdial/ freshmeat.net: Project details for WvDial<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>) is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-07-11|title=The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial|url=https://apenwarr.ca/log/20091224|website=apenwarr.ca}}</ref> It uses the wvstreams library.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100823123930/http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvStreams Wv Streams - open.alumnit.ca<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.<ref>[http://linux.die.net/man/8/chat chat(8) - Linux man page<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mac.freecode.com/projects/x-wvdial|title = X-wvdial}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/xmessage.1.html|title = XMESSAGE(1) manual page}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Free and open-source software}} * Hayes command set * ifconfig * NetworkManager * pppconfig * Point-to-Point Protocol daemon * USB modem
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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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