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Originally posted by anindyanuri Very sorry mesocool, I should have careful enough before posting my previous post. I should have thought that you might use any other distro. However, according to my post, you will find it similar to Red Hat and Fedora Core in GNOME and again sorry that I do not have any idea about Ubuntu, though I am interested to use it in future if I get it.
Regards
anindyanuri
A request : you please edit the particulars of you (what distro u use, your location, etc etc.).
When I was on dialup I prefered wvdial because it was quick,clean, and worked.
Check "man wvdial", "man wvdialconf", and "wvdial.conf" for information.
thanks for your answer. I had checked man wvdial but not man wvdial.conf.
I was angry because the supposedly smart wvdial sometimes entered an endless redial loop with a "no carrier" error. This would not have been a great problem on a normal PC. But this machine is an internet router with a web interface for controlling the dial-up connexion. Due to the occasional redial loop, the web interface would sometimes get stuck in the "dialing connexion, please wait" phase.
This can be fixed in the wvdial.conf file, but I think it is ... not smart (trying to be polite here) to have unlimited redial as a default value.
Apart from that, wvdial is a great piece of software now that I have found the documentation.
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