Re: Bluetooth support

[Yosef Akhtman <ya ecs soton ac uk>]

It is surprising that something that can be relatively easily achieved 
by editing a couple of config files plus running a couple of simple 
instructions on the command line, may not be achieved with the whole 
might of the NM framework.

I am new to GNOME hacking, so I would not know the solutions to the 
issues you have mentioned, but I will continue to look into it just in 
case I might get lucky. Please, let me know if you happen to have 
progress on this.

Marry Christmas,
Jos

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> I've been working on it up until recently.  The main wall that I've 
> hit is that NMDevice assumes that the "device" (whatever that means; 
> in bluetooth land, its not so clear) lifecycle is greater than the 
> NMDevice lifecycle and that the device exists in HAL.  I've not really 
> found a way around that, but perhaps dcbw would like to comment...
>
> Nathaniel
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Yosef Akhtman <ya ecs soton ac uk 
> <mailto:ya ecs soton ac uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     I'd love to help with the implementation of the GPRS over
>     Bluetooth in NM.
>     Is it an active project and is there any way I could contribute at
>     the moment?
>     I have it working using manual configuration on
>     Ubuntu 8.10
>     bluez-utils 4.12
>     Samsung D500 phone on a prepaid Vodaphone service in UK
>
>     All the best,
>     Jos
>
>     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).
>
>     > 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?
>
>     Dan
>
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