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

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Samstag 26 Juni 2010 schrieb 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/packa
> > ges.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.
archboot images contain ppp to do everything, wvdial is imho not needed.

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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