Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-11-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
For anyone still following this thread, Bluetooth tethering from the N95 works using the Bluetooth DUN wizard in Ubuntu 10.10 which uses a development version of Network Manager 8.1. No doubt these changes will hit Debian soon in NM 8.2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-11-02 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: No, I have an older N95 (that would probably be N95-1 or something like that) and it works flawlessly. The thing is, I spent several days hunting down relevant info all over Google in order to make it work. Some

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Hi, I prefer to use a travel router solution myself -- such as the Netcomm T1 ... it allows standard connectivity via WLAN whilst offering firewall features.

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2010 14:33:17 je Andrew Malcolmson napisal(a): I got it working. I had been using a KDE with Debian Sid called Aptosid. I did a fresh install of Squeeze and the USB tethering worked straightaway. I noticed that it works more smoothly if the USB cable is connected before boot.

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 01. 11. 2010 14:33:17 je Andrew Malcolmson napisal(a): I got it working.  I had been using a KDE with Debian Sid called Aptosid.  I did a fresh install of Squeeze and the USB tethering worked straightaway.  I

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2010 15:44:33 je Andrew Malcolmson napisal(a): Hi Klistvud, I've never got Bluetooth tethering working. Bluetooth pairing is fine but when I use the Debian built-in Bluetooth and attempt the DUN setup, I get a timeout error during 'detecting phone details'. Using the Blueman

Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem for my Squeeze laptop over USB. The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a bug report filed in 2008 but still open.): The wiki page:

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread David Sastre
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 04:35:55PM -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem for my Squeeze laptop over USB. The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:35:55 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem for my Squeeze laptop over USB. The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a bug

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Thanks guys: adding the redirection and using '-d' to point to the location of the file to be patched did it. However, through much Googling I'm learning that since HAL is now deprecated in favor of udev, the rules format in fdi files must be converted to the new udev format as explained at the

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I prefer to use a travel router solution myself -- such as the Netcomm T1 ... it allows standard connectivity via WLAN whilst offering firewall features. http://www.netcomm.com.au/netcomm-products/3g-mobile-broadband/3gt1wn Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband