Re: GSM modem via Bluetooth?

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>
> I spend some time on this over the holidays to figure out what it would
> take for manually started rfcomm ports to show up as Bluetooth modems
> and be configurable without the BT wizard.  The short answer is that
> yes, this is possible, though it's somewhat icky.  But even if NM
> exported the device as a Bluetooth modem, you'll still need connection
> details (APN, username, password) before you can ask NM to connect the
> device.
>

That's correct; and as soon as connection was no more ignored by NM I
was able to use knetworkmanager to configure it. So now I have fully
functional connection definition.

> I'll look into further cleaning up the proof-of-concept patches I did
> and see if they can be merged in some form in the near future.
>

Thank you!