Re: GSM modem via Bluetooth?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 15:33 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> I have Nokia E51 and am using KDE with bluedevil; Modemmanager 0.4 and
> NM 0.8.2-rc1. I can browse phone and transfer files, but modemmanager
> does not display any available device when BT is activated. Is it
> supposed to work at all and if yes, what is requires to get it
> working? Pointers to documentation is appreciated. Thank you!

Getting this working first requires adding a "connection" for the
device, since we can't scan for it.  Once the connection is added and
known to NM, it'll show up in the menu and you can choose it.  While it
doesn't help you immediately with bluedevil, this is how we did the
gnome side of things:

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/07/10/unwire-with-networkmanager/

Dan