Nikolay, Wvdial is an excellent tool, it is recommended to have, but not required. Most distros come with kppp and some use Gnome PPP which is a frontend for wvdial. Also wvdial exists on other distributions like Fedora, OpenSuse, moreover there are distributions like Slackware which do not carry it, but going to Slackbuilds.org http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/network/wvdial/ but one needs wvstreams also http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/libraries/wvstreams/ and applying the scripts one can build wvdial packages for it. If the user also uses Slax I have created some Slax modules http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=624 http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=368 for wvdial and wvstreams . What I have some questions about is the lsb-release. Some distributions don't follow Linux Standard Base. How does it make a difference with respect to wvdial? /etc/lsb-release not found Regards, Antonio On 2/27/10, Nikolay Zhuravlev <xxor@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Marvin/All, > > It seem to happen pretty often that people need to be reminded > here in the list about installing the wvdial package first. > Maybe scanModem could be modified to instruct a user to > install the wvdial and then rerun the scanModem. > This important bit of info seems to get lost in ModemData.txt > > And then scanModem could recognize the Ubuntu system and > provide some more specific info like this: > > <<< > if [ -f /etc/issue ] && grep -q Ubuntu /etc/issue; then cat <<EOF > > For Ubuntu users, there are at the bottom of > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ > packages with the files necessary to install wvdial, with names like: > EOF > > if lsb_release -c | grep -q jaunty; then cat <<EOF > wvdial_jaunty_amd64.zip for x86_64, 64 bit bus systems. > wvdial_jaunty_i386.zip for 32 bit systems. > EOF > > elif lsb_release -c | grep -q karmic; then cat <<EOF > wvdial_karmic_i386.zip for 32 bit systems. > EOF > else cat <<EOF > wvdial_*.zip > EOF > fi > cat <<EOF > These are about 1 MB in size. After downloaded and copied into your > Linux partition: > $ unzip wv*.zip > Within the new folder: > $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb > will complete the wvdial installation > Please read Modem/DOCs/wvdial.txt for usage information. > EOF > fi >>>> > > -- > Nick Zhuravlev > www.auriga.com > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky > <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Divesh >> >> The dialer utility package WVDIAL does not appear to be installed on >> your System. >> For Ubuntu users, there are at the bottom of >> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ >> packages with the files necessary to install wvdial: >> wvdial_karmic_i386.zip for 32 bit systems. >> These are about 1 MB in size. After downloaded and copied into your >> Linux partition: >> $ unzip wv*.zip >> Within the new folder: >> $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb >> will complete the wvdial installation >> Please read Modem/DOCs/wvdial.txt for usage information >> >
