I am trying to basically accomplish on my embedded Arm Linux platform what I can do now using wvdial on Ubuntu. I can initialize a modem using wvdial & wvdial.conf and dial out and establish a network connection. It would be cool for me to import the wvdial structure onto my embedded Linux platform, however there is a ton of luggage that must come with it, including wvstreams, openSSL, and pppd (I think) for instance. The problem with incorporating them is all of the dependencies that you have to resolve, assembly language routines that must be rewritten for Arm thanks to openSSL, environment variables that are incompatible, etc.

So, what I am looking for is a homegrown networking solution that is small and has few dependencies. I have already modified mgetty to use to initialize and command my modem. Do you Linux gurus know of any good alternatives to the Linux wvdial/wvstreams/openSSL dilemma I am facing?

Thanks ahead of time for the help!

James Bomkamp