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WVDIAL in slackware

wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet, it called dialup connection. We can used wvdial as command to connect to the internet in linux such as fedora, ubuntu, opensuse, slackware. In this tutorial i will show how to install wvdial in linux slackware version 12.2 (mine). let see. the first thing you must download , wvdial-1.60.tar.gz , wvstreams-4.4.1.tar.gz , xplc-0.3.13.tar.gz . To download, visit www.slackbuild.org then search the package or you can use this link

step by step the instalation 1. extract those files to /usr/src/ so in dorectory /usr/src/ you can see directory wvdial-1.60 , wvstreams , xplc-0.3.13 2.  copy all conntent of directory toxplc-0.3.13 to /usr/src/wvstreams-4.4.1   (overwrite all) 3.  using konsole  (as root) go to directory /usr/src/wvstreams-4.4.1 the command

./configure –prefix=/usr/local  && make && make install DESTDIR=/tmp/wvstreams-4.4.1 && cd /tmp/wvstreams-4.4.1 && makepkg -c y -l y -p /tmp/wvstreams-4.4.1.tgz &&  cd /tmp && installpkg /tmp/wvstreams-4.4.1.tgz

3. Go to  direktory /usr/src/wvdial-1.60  (still in command line) use the command

or you can commbine all command just like cd /usr/src/wvdial-1.60 && make  && make install

ok finish. now wvdial can we use..

Tags: aplication, install, internet, Linux, network, open source, Slackware   Posted in Tutorial, answers, computer, internet