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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
