Re: Question regarding the features for the next release

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Dan Williams<dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:00 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
>> Dan,
>>
>> I see that PAN support is coming in 8.0 but your blog post mentioned
>> that Bluetooth DUN would be a bit more difficult.   Is that going to
>> make the next release or would it be further down the road?   I am
>> primarily interested in being able to use Bluetooth to my Blackberry
>> since that device won't show up as a serial device.
>
> Blackberry is going to be more problematic, since its serial stuff is
> quite a bit more "special".  It requires the use of berry to poke the
> USB bits into serial mode, requires special commands to send the
> PIN/unlock code to the device, and doesn't support a lot of the
> traditional AT commands.  But thankfully I think ModemManager with 0.8
> can handle that better and even perhaps transparently to NM.
>
> I don't have a ton of time to work on DUN at this moment, and I'm
> thinking it may not hit 0.8.0 unless we get some help on that front.
> But it's still certainly a priority.
>
> Dan
>

If you use DUN over Bluetooth on a Blackberry it doesn't require all
that junk thankfully which is why I was hoping to see DUN over
Bluetooth support  :)

I don't know why Blackberry's don't support PAN, probably just to annoy me!