I've been working on it up until recently.  The main wall that I've hit is
that NMDevice assumes that the "device" (whatever that means; in bluetooth
land, its not so clear) lifecycle is greater than the NMDevice lifecycle and
that the device exists in HAL.  I've not really found a way around that, but
perhaps dcbw would like to comment...

Nathaniel

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Yosef Akhtman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'd love to help with the implementation of the GPRS over Bluetooth in NM.
> Is it an active project and is there any way I could contribute at the
> moment?
> I have it working using manual configuration on
> Ubuntu 8.10
> bluez-utils 4.12
> Samsung D500 phone on a prepaid Vodaphone service in UK
>
> All the best,
> Jos
>
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:45 +1100, Mikel Ward wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'd love to be able to have GPRS over Bluetooth work, even if it
> > required properly configuring /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf at first
> > (it's the manual PPP stuff I hate).
>
> We've got a plan, and BT is a top work item for NM 0.8, which I'll try
> to detail soon on this list.  It won't involve any mucking with
> rfcomm.conf since all that can be done automatically with the Bluez
> D-Bus interface.  It may require a fairly recent version of Bluez though
> (like 3.29 or later).
>
> > Is there any way I can help?
>
> We'll need testing at some point, of course.  At the moment though,
> we're in the planning stages.  What distro are you running and what
> version of the bluez-utils packages do you have?
>
> Dan
>
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