Re: Gentoo 1.4 and modems?

> I'm guessing this subject has been brought up before, but I am having trouble with the install when it comes to setting up my network connection. I use a modem to connect to the internet, and I know wvdial and wvdialconf are both located on the 1.4 livecd. When I try to run wvdialconf or wvdial, it gives me an error about not finding some shared wvdial lib. (I believe it was libwvutils.so.?.?, don't know what the right version number is, so I just put ? where the numbers were.) I looked for it in /lib, but it's not there.  Has anyone else ran into this problem, and are there any ways to get around it? I'm sure there are since people using linux connected with modems before wvdial, but I haven't the slightest on how to do that, since the Gentoo Install doc has nothing on using a modem. Can anyone help?

Since no one answered you, I'll indulge you in the (tacky) solution I have.  First I create a directory with the files (you can get them from your current install):

libcrypt.so
wvdial
wvdialconf
libcrypt.a
resolv.conf
wvdial.conf

and I create a script in the same directory with the following contents:

mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
cp libcrypt.* /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypt.so /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1
ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem
cp wvdial.conf /etc/wvdial.conf
syslogd
cp wvdial /etc/ppp/peers
cp resolv.conf /etc

So when I'm ready to download some distfiles, I just execute the script (from its directory) and wvdial works.  If its not obvious, the directory you create should be accessible in gentoo during the install; so put it in a backup drive or something.  This doesn't 'taint' your final installation so the tackyness is short-lived.

Regards,
Mazhar