Re: Bluetooth tethering with NM?

["cheater00 ." <cheater00 gmail com>]

Hi Dan,
thanks for your quick reply.

I don't run GNOME and don't have it installed; I run MATE which is a
fork of GNOME 2. They have abandoned mate-bluetooth-applet (which was
their copy of the gnome-blueetoth-applet) switching to blueman. They
have probably based mate-bluetooth-applet off a version of
gnome-bluetooth-applet which didn't have that checkbox yet; I don't
see it if I use the latest version provided by MATE (1.6, while the
latest MATE is 1.8).

What would the procedure be without gnome-bluetooth-applet?

I assume this creates a file somewhere like
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections; could you post the file that
you get?

Thanks a lot

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 17:11 +0200, cheater00 . wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am on Ubuntu 13.10 and am trying to enable bluetooth tethering (so
> > that I can use my phone's internet connection). This is preferrable to
> > wifi tethering which eats up the battery.
> >
> > I can easily pair my laptop to my phone using blueman but, contrary to
> > what tutorials online show, the bluetooth connection doesn't show up
> > in nm-applet.
> >
> > My network-manager-gnome package is at version 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu5.1.
> >
> > blueman is 1.23+update1-2ubuntu1.
>
> The connection gets created when you pair the phone with the laptop, via
> the GNOME bluetooth applet.  It looks somewhat like this:
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/07/10/unwire-with-networkmanager/
>
> When you finish pairing the phone, you'll get a checkbox that has
> options for using the phone either as a PAN device, or a DUN device,
> depending on what your phone supports.  For PAN, all that's required is
> checking the box.  For DUN, ModemManager gets started to inspect the
> phone, and then the Mobile Broadband Wizard appears to let you configure
> the APN and other details.  After that, the phone should appear in the
> nm-applet menu.  Can you try the GNOME Bluetooth applet process and see
> if that makes things work?
>
> Dan