From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 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
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.
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.
Still applies to FC6.
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.
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.