I refer to this: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-June/014388.html Other (desktop) distributions can skip wvdial on their installers because they have (1) a desktop environment by default and as such (2) some sort of GUI network management front-end that can handle most types of connections, including mobile broadband [1]. However, we are leaving out those users. I had posted another link to configuring such connections with ppp some months ago [2], but the fact of the matter is that it's all pretty cumbersome. On the other hand, wvdial is a well-known method for this and is easy to configure, aside from gathering ISP details like APN and putting that in a file (etc/wvdial.conf). Right now only the following people can install Arch Linux without having to go through a number of hoops: * with cable broadband * with DSL broadband * with wireless broadband I believe we'd be pretty much 'complete' if we added: * with mobile broadband At least, in the 'broadband' category. This effectively implies 2 packages from [extra]: wvdial wvstreams (dependency) Since a package needn't be in [core] to be included in the image, I say we should do this :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_broadband [2] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-October/016727.html