Bug 178025

Summary: wvdial only supports five alternate phone numbers
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vladimir Mencl <mencl>
Component: wvdialAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Fixed In Version: wvdial-1.60-4.fc9 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Extend the limit of alternate phone numbers from 4 to 9 none

Description Vladimir Mencl 2006-01-17 14:57:50 UTC 
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Description of problem:
wvdial only supports five alternate phone numbers

The primary phone number is specified via the "Phone" entry in wvdial.conf
Four alternate phone numbers can be specified via Phone1 - Phone4 entries.

Unfortunately, I am connecting to a system which has 6 alternate numbers - and sometimes, almost all of them are busy and I need to try out all of them in order to connect.

I have created a patch extending the limit to 10 numbers - adding support for Phone5 - Phone9.

I know that this is not a systematic solution, however, I have not attempted to modify wvdial to support an arbitrary number of phone numbers. 

This new limit only seems "more natural" to me, as the supported configuration entries are Phone1 - Phone9 - all single-digit names.

While the reasoning for this solution is humble and based on my situation, I expect that while the limit of 5 phone numbers has been exceeded in my case, the limit of 10 phone numbers is already unlikely to exceed.

The solution works for me - and I am offering to share it with others.

You are welcome to download the patch at 
http://nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~mencl/wvdial-1.54-9nums.patch

(I will also add it as an attachment through a comment to this bug).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
wvdial-1.54.0-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Specify more than 5 phone numbers in wvdial.conf
2. Numbers Phone, Phone1, .. Phone4 work. Phone5 is ignored.
3. Dial
  

Actual Results:  Number specified as Phone5 is ignored and wvdial retries from the first number if Phone and Phone1-4 are busy.


Expected Results:  Number Phone5 dialed.

Additional info:

Patch extending the limit of phone numbers to 10 is available at

http://nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~mencl/wvdial-1.54-9nums.patch
Comment 1 Vladimir Mencl 2006-01-17 15:05:20 UTC 
Created attachment 123295 [details]
Extend the limit of alternate phone numbers from 4 to 9

Extend the limit of alternate phone numbers from 4 to 9

Manpage is also updated in the patch.
Comment 2 Christian Iseli 2007-01-22 11:01:50 UTC 
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.
Comment 3 Vladimir Mencl 2007-01-22 20:48:27 UTC 
Still applies to FC6.
Comment 4 Ondrej Vasik 2007-10-12 11:04:32 UTC 
Ok, seems to be reasonable to have 10 phone numbers instead of 5. I don't like
this kind of extending changes (unlimited number would be better) - but it seems
to be easiest solution.

Anyway - I will not backport the patch to FC6, therefore changing version to devel.
Comment 5 Ondrej Vasik 2008-02-13 09:50:03 UTC 
Used a bit modified your patch(few rejects because of changes between 1.54 and
1.60). Built as wvdial-1.60-4.fc9 , closing RAWHIDE.