Wvdial - Wvdialconf Utility

Wvdialconf Utility

If /etc/wvdial.conf is not present, the easiest way to create it is to use configuration utility wvdialconf .

It helps in generating the configuration file needed by WvDial. wvdialconf detects your modem, and fill in automatically the Modem, maximum Baud rate, and a good initialization string (Init options) and generates or updates the WvDial configuration file (/etc/wvdial.conf) based on this information.

It is safe to run wvdialconf if a configuration file already exists. In that case, only the Modem, Baud, Init, and Init2 options are changed in the section, and only if autodetection is successful.

wvdialconf is a non-interactive utility ( that means that you still need to edit /etc/wvdial.conf to specify the phone number, login name, and password of your internet account in order for WvDial to work).

Example:

Here, /etc/wvdial.conf is the path of the file that needs to be created or updated with the details that wvdialconf detects.

The configuration file built by wvdialconf still needs to be updated with the details like your phone number, username, password for your internet connection in order for WvDial to work.