Re: NM + DUN on Fedora-12?

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

>> For one thing, the BT Net Device Setup times out detecting the phone
>> details.  I've got gnome-bluetooth 2.28.6 which is newer than 2.27.6 so
>> that should be "new enough".  For another, it seems that the NM in FC12
>> doesn't seem to support DUN (or if it does, I can't figure out how to
>> connect it all up).  Apparently the FC13 NM does.  I backport the FC13
>> NM to FC12?  Or is there something else I'm missing?
>
> There are various F12-updates-testing builds that do support DUN.  Check
> koji.fedoraproject.org for them, or 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing'
> for them.  The update rate of NM/MM for F12 will be slowing down, but we
> should at least get NM 0.8.1/MM 0.4 for F12 which obviously do support
> DUN.
>
> I've also noticed problems with BT in 2.6.32 and later kernels, but that
> appears to be kernel/USB related and not necessarily due to NM.

I've just upgraded my FC12 laptop to the most recent packages (but not
the testing packages).  I'm hitting this kernel/USB issue.  Any known
workarounds?  Any test-patches I could play with?

> Dan

-derek

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