On 27 June 2010 01:07, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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. And such is the case for all other distros; wvdial is not included by default because it's just a dialer for ppp (chap scripts are what act as a dialer in absence of a real dialer). You can wvdial on a working system and keep a backup of the ppp scripts for use on multiple machines. I myself, however, never went through so much trouble. It's not so annoying to keep a copy of wvdial and install it offline. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/coms/unix.html http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/T-Mobile_pppd_scripts -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
