Chestnut Dialer For Linux

Chestnut Dialer is PPP (Point to Point Protocol) dialing program, written in Python. Many Internet providers, that provide dialup service, use PPP protocol; this program helps you to connect to Internet using a modem.

Current version (0.2.2) can work with GTK2, QT, or without GUI (command line interface). You can run Chestnut Dialer with user's priviliges (it doesn't require root permissions), but it requires read and/or write access to some system files (including the modem device). Chestnut Dialer uses standard pppd daemon to set up network interface.

Requirements:

Minimum software required for Chestnut Dialer to work:

� Linux (may work in other OS, not tested), http://linux.org/ � Python must be installed, http://www.python.org/ � ppp package must be installed (pppd, chat), ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/. For using call-back ppp must by compiled with CBCP (Call Back Configuration Protocol) support � Python binding for libxml2 (libxml2-python), http://xmlsoft.org/

Libraries needed for using GTK2 user interface:

� Python binding for GTK2 (pygtk2), http://pygtk.org/ � Python binding for libglade (pygtk2-libglade, included in pygtk2)

Libraries needed for using QT user interface:

� Python binding for QT (PyQt), http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/

� pppd must have suid attribute and belong to root � /etc/resolv.conf must be accessible for read and write � /etc/ppp/resolv.conf must be accessible for read � Modem device must be accessible for read and write � chat must be accessible for execute � ifconfig must be accessible for execute

What's New in This Release:

� A bug in modem volume setting when using callback was fixed. � Unnamed tabs in Edit Account dialog in qt interface was fixed. � A bug in handling quotes in modem commands was fixed.