Am Samstag 26 Juni 2010 schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: > On 06/26/2010 05:10 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:22:39 -0600 > > > > jwbirdsong<jwbirdsong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 06/25/2010 11:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch > >>> on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup > >>> internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I > >>> had to carry wvdial's package in another pen drive. > >>> > >>> It would be nice if wvdial was included in the ISO, so such people > >>> can have the latest system if they conduct an FTP install. > >> > >> Maybe CC a copy of this to the arch-releng ML. Oh wait I just did. > >> And perhaps add a feature request to the Release Eng bug tracker/ > > > > As far as I can see, none of the current packages [1] contains a dialing > > tool, so looks ok for me. > > > > [1] > > http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/configs/syslinux-iso/packa > > ges.i686 > > > > Dieter > > Yeah. As far as dialing software is considered, I think wvdial is the > best one available out there (I don't know if any others exist :D). > Here in India, its hard to get Linux support for such wireless internet > devices officially from the ISP (It seems they don't like Linux lol), > but still some people (geeks) have devised methods using wvdial and > usb_modeswitch (if required) to use them. archboot images contain ppp to do everything, wvdial is imho not needed. -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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