WVDIALCONF(1)

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💖 WVDIALCONF(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to wvdialconf — the little tool from the General Commands Manual section that sets up your modem for you so you don't have to guess baud rates like some kind of feral gremlin 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

wvdialconf — literally builds a configuration file for wvdial(1), no cap 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea: wvdialconf sniffs out your modem, figures out its maximum baud rate, and finds a good initialization string for it — and then it generates or updates the wvdial(1) configuration file with all of that info. it's giving detective energy 🔍✨

and the best part? wvdialconf is completely non-interactive. it does NOT ask you questions. it does NOT want your input. it just does the thing and dips 💨

but bestie… you still have to edit /etc/wvdial.conf yourself to put in the phone number, login name, and password for your internet account, or wvdial(1) will simply not work. sorry queen, the vibes alone can't log you in 😭

okay and here's the reassuring part: it is safe to run wvdialconf even if a configuration file already exists 🫶. in that case, only the Modem, Baud, Init, and Init2 options get changed in the [Dialer Defaults] section — and only if autodetection is successful. so if it fails, nothing gets touched. respectful. iconic. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

we're willing to entertain the possibility 💀. like, sure, bugs could exist, we're not above it. if you have any problems, let us know by sending an e-mail to <wvdial-list@lists.nit.ca> 📧 no gatekeeping here.

⭐ DIAGNOSTICS ⭐

  • an exit status of 0 means a modem was detected and the configuration file was updated successfully. slay 💖
  • any other value means something went wrong and the configuration file was unchanged. it's giving "we tried, we failed, nothing happened" 😭

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Dave Coombs and Avery Pennarun for Net Integration Technologies 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀✨ this one's from December 2005, brought to you by WvDial, and yeah it lives in the General Commands Manual section as WVDIALCONF(1). go forth and configure those modems, you absolute legend 🦋💅

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