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 23:52 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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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?
> 
> Sounds like more on the Bluetooth side, of course.  Does your phone do
> anything when NM tries to bring the connection up?  Mine usually asks me
> whether I want to allow the computer to connect, or it'll show an icon
> saying a computer is connected.  In any case, this is exactly why this
> method is a hack, and why we want the real solution...

My phone is already paired because I use it all the time from kppp, but
would love to do it this way instead. I believe there is some activity
on the phone but will have to take a look at it again. I'm assuming
there's some way to run NM in a mode where I can see exactly what it
thinks it's doing? If something fails, it would be good to see what so I
can tweak if possible.

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