[arch-general] [arch-releng] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 06/26/2010 05:10 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:22:39 -0600
> jwbirdsong<jwbirdsong at jwbirdsong.homelinux.com>  wrote:
>
>>    On 06/25/2010 11:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch
>>> on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup
>>> internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I
>>> had to carry wvdial's package in another pen drive.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if wvdial was included in the ISO, so such people
>>> can have the latest system if they conduct an FTP install.
>>>
>> Maybe CC a copy of this to the arch-releng ML.  Oh wait I just did.
>> And perhaps add a feature request to the Release Eng bug tracker/
>
> As far as I can see, none of the current packages [1] contains a dialing
> tool, so looks ok for me.
>
> [1]
> http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686
>
> Dieter

Yeah. As far as dialing software is considered, I think wvdial is the 
best one available out there (I don't know if any others exist :D).
Here in India, its hard to get Linux support for such wireless internet 
devices officially from the ISP (It seems they don't like Linux lol), 
but still some people (geeks) have devised methods using wvdial and 
usb_modeswitch (if required) to use them.

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