On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Dan Williams<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:00 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: >> Dan, >> >> I see that PAN support is coming in 8.0 but your blog post mentioned >> that Bluetooth DUN would be a bit more difficult. Is that going to >> make the next release or would it be further down the road? I am >> primarily interested in being able to use Bluetooth to my Blackberry >> since that device won't show up as a serial device. > > Blackberry is going to be more problematic, since its serial stuff is > quite a bit more "special". It requires the use of berry to poke the > USB bits into serial mode, requires special commands to send the > PIN/unlock code to the device, and doesn't support a lot of the > traditional AT commands. But thankfully I think ModemManager with 0.8 > can handle that better and even perhaps transparently to NM. > > I don't have a ton of time to work on DUN at this moment, and I'm > thinking it may not hit 0.8.0 unless we get some help on that front. > But it's still certainly a priority. > > Dan >
If you use DUN over Bluetooth on a Blackberry it doesn't require all that junk thankfully which is why I was hoping to see DUN over Bluetooth support :) I don't know why Blackberry's don't support PAN, probably just to annoy me! _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
