In the same console you opened wvdial, just type ctrl-c. If you want to
reconnect, just type in wvdial in the ssmae console.
Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:15 am, Bo Grimes wrote:
James wrote:
I always use wvdial with ppp for dial-out.
As a command-line cripple (um, make that challenged) I have always used
KPPP. However, recently with Ubuntu I was forced to learn some of wvdial.
Ubuntu only provides Gnome, and the network set-up wizard wouldn't
work. I used apt (apt-got I guess one could say) to get KDE, and KPPP
wouldn't work, but before I could even use apt I had to get a connection.
Having heard of wvdial, I checked to see if it was installed, and it
was. Then I read the man pages, and maybe it wasn't the best way but I
ended up creating a file (isp) and running wvdial --config isp, and got
connected.
Having heard of screen, I read up on it and learned how to detach the
wvdial process.
What I never learned was how to shut it down apart from finding its PID
and killing it. Even then it often began redialing unless I killed my
terminal session.
I thought about trying to write by first script, making it executable
and giving it an icon on my panel so I didn't have to open a terminal
every time I wanted to get on-line, but I knew I would first have to
learn how to shut it down.
It was a good learning experience. What's the elegent way to use wvdial
to connect and disconnect?
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