Re: Bluetooth and rfcomm GPRS modem init failure

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Julian Rush <julianrush70 yahoo co uk> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Can you help with an issue with my DUN Bluetooth connection to my phone
> please?  I'm running Eeebuntu, a variant of Ubuntu Interpid, on an EeePC
> 901; I have Bluez 4.30 from the Blueman PPA and NM is
> 0.7-ubuntu1~nm1~intrepid1 from the NM PPA.  Phone is a Blackberry 8100.
>
> Bluez works fine - it creates /dev/rfcomm0 which is detected by NM and the
> wizard works to set up my GPRS Mobile Broadband connection with the correct
> details.  I can connect manually using gnome-ppp but when I try through NM
> the network is disconnected immediately and the log says 'Modem
> initialization failed'.

There was large improvements to using phones with NetworkManager on
the just released 0.7.1 release of NetworkManager. It might be worth
upgrading to that version to see if that fixes your issues.

Peter