Dear Anonio
I do not understand your line
/etc/lsb-release not found
but it may help you to know that on my Scientific Linux (derived from
RedHat RHEL4) theis a directory
/etc/lsb-release.d
As you use Fedora this is likely the same for you.
[localhost] /home/goldberg > ls -l /etc/lsb-release.d/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 7 2005 core-3.0-ia32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 7 2005 core-3.0-noarch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 7 2005 graphics-3.0-ia32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 7 2005 graphics-3.0-noarch
Jacques
Antonio Olivares wrote:
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
