In fact, would you please create a diff of /etc/NetworkManager before and after pairing up with your phone? Hopefully on a fresh instance of /etc/NetworkManager?
Thank you On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:23 PM, cheater00 . <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
