Re: Bluetooth tethering with NM?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 18:39 +0200, cheater00 . wrote:
> In fact, would you please create a diff of /etc/NetworkManager before
> and after pairing up with your phone? Hopefully on a fresh instance of
> /etc/NetworkManager?

Something like this:

[connection]
id=T-Mobile Internet
uuid=1535b59d-6d43-4a4a-a30c-2c8d97b6d3bb
type=bluetooth
autoconnect=false

[gsm]
apn=epc.tmobile.com

[bluetooth]
bdaddr=00:26:E2:33:22:11
type=dun

Should be all you need.

Dan

> Thank you
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:23 PM, cheater00 . <cheater00 gmail com> wrote:
> > 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