How do I set up PPP and where/how do I get wvdial?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:04:33PM +0100, Neil Woolford wrote:

> I've just installed Sounder9 on an old machine.  I'd now like to get it on 
> the internet via my dialup connection.
> 
> When I open the network settings gui and try to add a ppp dialup connection 
> I get the error message that I need wvdial.  This doesn't seem to be on the 
> Sounder9 disc, it certainly isn't present in the packages list when I look 
> for it in the Synaptics package manager.

It wasn't on the sounder 9 disk, but it is part of the main Ubuntu
repository, and is present on recent daily CDs.

> Come to that, why isn't it present in the base install if it is needed to 
> set up ppp - the networking assistant has a setting for ppp!

It is now, it just wasn't ready for that role yet at the time that the
Sounder 9 CD was released.

> PS  During install I was prompted for all the relevant ISP information, but 
> there is no trace of it in the network settings gui.  Where has that gone 
> then?  How would that have set up ppp if wvdial isn't available?

wvdial is not the only way to configure a PPP connection; the installer uses
a different method.

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 - mdz