On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 18:39 +0200, cheater00 . wrote: > 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?
Something like this: [connection] id=T-Mobile Internet uuid=1535b59d-6d43-4a4a-a30c-2c8d97b6d3bb type=bluetooth autoconnect=false [gsm] apn=epc.tmobile.com [bluetooth] bdaddr=00:26:E2:33:22:11 type=dun Should be all you need. Dan > 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
