[PLUG] Setting up for modem use on laptop

[Rich Shepard]

  In preparation for a trip next week, I'm trying to set up my Sony Vaio
(with Slackware-9.1) to dial into my ISP. I thought I'd give 'wvdial' a try
to make it easier to set up the connection.

  Grabbed the wvdial source tarball and learned I also needed the wvstreams
tarball. Got that. Started with the wvstreams and 'make' fails. According
to the wvdial site that's because of some incompatibilities with
openssl-0.9.6; problems that are fixed by having the include files and
development libraries. There is no slackware package with these.

  I have on this system
      /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.2.3/include/openssl/bn.h
and
	/usr/include/openssl/*.h

  The wvdial Web site also says that openssl-0.9.7beta is broken so -0.9.6
should be used. On the openssl Web site, -0.9.7 was released 30 Sept 2003
and -0.9.6l on 4 Nov 2003. Huh?

  Anyway, I'm not sure how to procede here. Are there other dialers
(excluding those requiring KDE or Gnome to be installed)?

Thanks,

Rich

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Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
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