Re: Issues with iPhone tethering after phone disconnect

[Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel natemccallum com>]

On 03/10/2010 03:06 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Nathaniel McCallum
> <nathaniel natemccallum com>  wrote:
> > On 03/10/2010 02:44 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > > The only way I've found to fix this is to turn off bluetooth on the
> > > > iPhone
> > > > and then turn it back on.
> > > >
> > > > 1. Go to: Settings ->    General ->    Bluetooth
> > > > 2. Flip the Bluetooth switch off
> > > > 3. Count to 5
> > > > 4. Flip it back on
> > > >
> > > > Rebooting the phone does *not* work.
> > > >
> > > > This is either an iPhone bug or bluez is doing something funky to put the
> > > > iPhone bluetooth daemon in a weird state.
> > > >
> > > > Nathaniel
> > >
> > > I'm also having this issue. Has anybody resolved this issue? I had
> > > bluetooth working on Fedora 12 with iPhone in December 2009 so I guess
> > > some of updates since them broke something. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> >
> > I had the same problems with F12 in December.  In fact, I've always had the
> > problem.  I think the bug is actually an iphone bug, but is triggered by
> > bluez.  Cross your fingers that it will be fixed in iphone OS 4.0.
> >
> > Nathaniel
>
> I have windows on my business laptop (HP Mini 5101) and tested it
> there under windows and iPhone sees it immediately, reboot to Fedora
> 12 and iPhone doesn't see it :( I checked that laptop has enabled
> discovery under bluetooth settings.
>
> Tried downgrading gnome-bluetooth* packages and rebooting still same issue :(
>
> What packages can I try do downgrade also? I saw reports that some
> users have issue with bluetooth pairing and tethering with jailbroken
> iPhones... but why does it work with Windows?!?
>
> Maybe to downgrade NetworkManager packages?

Actually, I'm running the latest NM from F13 and my tethering appears 
not to work at all.  I think its hanging on carrier detection.  If I run 
dhclient in a terminal, I get an IP immediately, but NM just keeps 
circling....

Nathaniel