Re: Bluetooth support

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>]

Hi Dan,

> > > > 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).
> > 
> > go more for something like 4.22 :)
> 
> Probably, but Fedora 9, which is the last release I care about, has
> 3.36.  3.29 is the latest version I can find that add support for the
> "new" interface.

except that we changed it in 4.x to make it even simpler. You just have
to find the right object path, call Connect() on it and then either get
a TTY or network device name as result.

Regards

Marcel