Re: Using a mobile phone via Bluetooth

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 12:54 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>> Brian Morrison wrote:
>>> Saw this on the Planet Fedora RSS feed today:
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>>> http://fetzig.org/2009/07/04/tethering-in-fedora-using-your-mobile-phone-with-networkmanager-to-surf-the-web/
>>>
>>> Does this look the sort of thing where a more sane approach could be
>>> added to NM or udev to cope with a wider range of phones without
>>> needing to create user rules?
>> I notice this solution mentions GSM. Is there any reason this should not
>> work for a CDMA phone?
> 
> As long as the phone responds to AT+GCAP with "IS-707" the probe will
> tag the phone as a CDMA device and you should be able to use it with a
> CDMA connection like any normal data card or USB-attached CDMA phone.
> NM shouldn't be confused by the mis-tagged HAL entry in the linked
> dialup-bluetooth.py because it prefers the probed capabilities over
> static ones in HAL.

So I actually got this working where an rfcomm1 shows up in the NM
Plasma Applet (I assume that I'm probably supposed to stop setting up
rfcomm0 manually with /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf). However, nothing I do
seems to make it want to actually connect. At first the rfcomm1 shows up
and claims to be looking for an IP address. Then it fails. It's not
clear that it ever attempts to dialup via PPP, even though I have a
connection configured. Is there some way to troubleshoot this?

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