On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > I've a netbook and I want to use it to access my home-office email wherever > I happen to be... with minimal fuss. Sometimes I'll be connected to a wired > network, sometimes wireless, sometimes via my mobile phone (connected over > bluetooth) - sometimes from home - sometimes from remote locations. > > To this end, I've set up a openvpn VPN using NetworkManager for my client > which allows me to interact with my email server as if I am at home from > wherever my netbook happens to be connected. This works wonderfully well > both for ethernet and 802.11 wireless connectivity. > > My problem arises when I want to use my mobile phone. I know my hardware > works, because I can use NetworkManager to disable wireless, then the > following wvdial configuration to establish a PPP connection... and - if I'm > somewhere without any connectivity - it allows me to browse the web and make > ssh connections to servers via my mobile phone. > -- > [Dialer Defaults] > Init1=ATZ > Modem=/dev/rfcomm0 > Baud=460800 > Phone = *99# > Username = username > Password = password > New PPPD = yes > -- > > > So far, so good... but, when NetworkManager is not aware of a network > connection (because the mobile phone connection has been patched-through > from the command line) it refuses to allow me to turn on my VPN. > > Obviously, it would be best if I could avoid using the command line at all - > but I'm drawing a blank on how to do this. Under "Edit Connections" there's > a promising looking "Mobile Broadband" - which goes on to give me a dialog > into which I can patch the phone number "*99#" and username/password (though > these are both ignored by the wvdial approach, so don't seem to be very > important...) - but I can't see anywhere to specify the interface... > /dev/rfcomm0 - which, I suspect, is significant. Furthermore, even with a > "Mobile Broadband" connection configured in "Network Connections" - I don't > see how I can activate this from the NetworkManager GUI... (similarly for > the DSL configurations - though those are of no practical interest to me at > the moment...) > > Is there any way that I can configure NetworkManager to allow me to switch > between wireless connectivity and 'dialup' networking via my mobile phone? > It seems so close to working that it would be a shame to be forced back to > the command line... > > In case it is relevant, I'm using NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100 - the > latest Ubuntu default. > > Any hints much appreciated... >
At this time Network Manager does not support Bluetooth modems. I think 0.8 supports phones if they use Bluetooth PAN but not Bluetooth DUN. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
