When I execute wvdial in the konsole, it shows messages like this: --> pppd: ط% The part after "pppd: " is random and varies between executions. See the attached file for how it may look. # pppd --version pppd version 2.4.4 $ wvdial --version WvDial 1.60 Copyright (c) 1997-2005 Net Integration Technologies, Inc. $ uname -a Linux tor 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 #1 PREEMPT Tue Aug 4 19:38:50 CEST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux $ /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library stable release version 2.9, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.0. Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.28-gentoo-r5<< system on 2009-07-20. Available extensions: C stubs add-on version 2.1.2 crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others Gentoo snapshot 20081201 Gentoo patchset 5 GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al Support for some architectures added on, not maintained in glibc core. BIND-8.2.3-T5B For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
Created attachment 202120 [details] konsole output from pppd (used by wvdial)
Try to re-emerge following packets (in that order): net-libs/wvstreams net-dialup/wvdial
(In reply to comment #2) > Try to re-emerge following packets (in that order): > net-libs/wvstreams > net-dialup/wvdial That did not help.
this heavily depends on your console settings, and, on locales - list available locales - give us locale and locale -a - attache emerge --info - does it happen the same way in console and xterm ? - it may also depend on you login program, the one loaded by inittab and asks your passwork, because, it's the one responsible for setting up the console properly (or not): a bad/good getty could do/prevent this . So, if using console, give us any getty line from inittab
You should rather close this bug "comment/answer request".
