About
WvDial is a program that makes it easy to connect your Linux workstation to the Internet. It will automatically detect your modem, and it can log into almost any Internet provider's server without any special configuration.
You may download the latest official release of WvDial at DownloadReleases. For the latest bleeding edge development (and complete development history), see wlach's repository on github.
Please note!
WvDial is a system application for Linux users. If you don't use Unix/Linux, you may want to look at NITI's all-in-one network gateway, Nitix.
WvDial requires WvStreams. If you are compiling it, please make sure that you have WvStreams installed first (both the Shared Library and the Development package).
If you have any problems using WvDial, you may contact us on the appropriate MailingList.
Other stuff you may want to know
- If you use the latest RedHat or SuSE Linux, WvDial should already be included with your system.
- If you use Debian, you can install the latest pre-compiled Debian package (.deb) from your favourite mirror of ftp.debian.org.
- Patrick Patterson (ppatters) has produced KWvDial, which is a friendlier graphical version of WvDial for the KDE environment.
- Matthias Toussaint wrote QtWvDialer, which is another graphical front end for WvDial
- Dave Baker has contributed a Frequently Asked Questions (WvDialFAQ) list, which solves some common problems.
- Riley Williams has written a quick primer on using WvDialWithDialD (Dial on Demand).
- David Pashley has written a tutorial on using WvDial to do Dial on Demand without DialD.