Re: wvdial and scanModem

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Nikolay,

Good idea, I'll make the wvdial recommendation more prominent and per
Antonio's suggestion, will broaden the search path for it wvdial.

Incidentally, the wvdial package may currently to be without a formal
maintainer, which may be contributing to some of the failures we are
encountering.  If someone has the time/skills, wvdial/wvdialconf's
whole source code should be checked.
More on this later when I'm back under Linux

MarvS

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:25 PM, 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
>>
>


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