Re: Bluetooth support

["Mikel Ward" <mikel mikelward com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:45 +1100, Mikel Ward wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'd love to be able to have GPRS over Bluetooth work, even if it
>> required properly configuring /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf at first
>> (it's the manual PPP stuff I hate).
>
> We've got a plan, and BT is a top work item for NM 0.8, which I'll try
> to detail soon on this list.  It won't involve any mucking with
> rfcomm.conf since all that can be done automatically with the Bluez
> D-Bus interface.  It may require a fairly recent version of Bluez though
> (like 3.29 or later).

Good to hear!

>> Is there any way I can help?
>
> We'll need testing at some point, of course.  At the moment though,
> we're in the planning stages.  What distro are you running and what
> version of the bluez-utils packages do you have?

Currently running Ubuntu 8.10 x86 with bluez 4.12-0ubuntu5.

Thanks

Mike