diald with wvdial? RH7.1 NEWBIE
 

Hi everyone - 1st ever post

I set up my internet connection using rp3-config provided with RedHat 7.1 Works fine, but now I'd like to get it to dial automatically. I tried adding 'demand' to my etc/ppp/options but my dialup connection quit working and still didn't dial automatically. I found a program called diald. Unfortunately, all the man pages discuss is starting from scratch with chat scripts etc. rp3-config seems to have used wvdial? Can I use the two together? Can somebody help point me :newbie: in the right direction?

diald is THE way to do it, and it works great. Just take a bit of time to step back and read the scary bits. With a bit of luck you'll find the chat scripts really aren't *always* that bad. My dialup script which i needed for a similar kind of service (mserver) just says:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/modem 57600 debug user anispaddress.fsnet.co.uk \
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' AT OK ATD0891505050 CONNECT '\d\c'"

it's worht taking the time out to learn a little bit, but to tell you the truth, i don't really know exactly what that means, but i know it works... all in the howto on pppd i think.

having said that, there's always a chance you might be able to just put wvdial in the config file for diald instead or a chat reference, it might not matter. make sure redial is off thou in wvdial.conf