I've just installed blueman, to replace bluez-gnome, and it does this
perfectly.
It's a much better UI-oriented manager for BT devices altogether, it shows
my phone, I click on "attach serial service", and it exposes the BT modem
in DBus. NM 0.7 sees it just like a USB modem and it connects first time.
Magic!
I'm too hardened to be often impressed first-time with a piece of software,
but this was spot-on (does audio, obex, etc just as neatly). OK, it takes a
couple of extra clicks to connect the phone, which I guess a built-in NM
implementation could do automatically, but that's pretty minor.
Rick
--On Friday, October 02, 2009 00:19:29 +0100 Bastien Nocera
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 14:39 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:18 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
<snip>
> > 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.
>
> Correct; I may just get bored enough today triaging bugs to go implement
> DUN in 0.8. That opens up a huge number of cellphones, which will
> inevitably lead to even more bugs since there's much more phone
> variation than in the relatively small data card space. Oh well; it
> would help a lot of people out.
1. Add ability for MM to identify Bluetooth modems
2. Add plugin in bluez to poke at the modem with MM if it doesn't know
the type of device, cache the result, the bluez plugin exports the
information through a service
3. Add DUN gnome-bluetooth plugin to nm-applet which would poke the
bluez service
4. Add native support in NM to do the connection through bluetoothd
After 3., if the box is ticked, the device should appear like an
unconfigured WWAN modem to the user. The service configuration can then
be done through nm-applet.
I can certainly take care of 2. and 3. if you do 1. and the left-overs
of 4 :)
Cheers
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