step-by-step tutorial what I did for my PAN approach, with a few
(german) screenshots, tested on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid:
-* Since my laptop was running on Ubuntu Lucid, there was already a
- recent Blueman version in the Ubuntu repos available. On older
- systems, you may want to add the [Blueman Launchpad PPA][5].
-
- $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:blueman/ppa # only necessary on pre-lucid systems
- $ sudo aptitude update
- $ sudo aptitude install blueman
-
-* Note that this also removes possibly installed `gnome-bluetooth`
- packages since Blueman is an adequate replacement for the GNOME
- Bluetooth UI.
-
-* After the installation has finished, I had to enable the NMPANSupport
- plugin for NetworkManager 0.8 by right-clicking on the Blueman icon in
- the GNOME notification area and selecting “Plugins”. For older
- NetworkManager versions, there is also a plugin for NetworkManager
- 0.7, called NMIntegration.
-
- <div class="gallery">
- [[!img blueman-menu.png alt="Blueman context menu"]]
- [[!img blueman-plugins.png alt="Blueman plugin page"]]
- </div>
-
-* Then I activated tethering on my phone (“Programs” → “Internet
- Sharing” on my Windows Mobile 6.1, but YMMV). Apparently this was
- neccesary with my model, because without tethering enabled I could not
- get a Bluetooth PAN connection in the next step.
-
- <div class="gallery">
- [[!img winmo-program-menu.png alt="Windows Mobile Program screen"]]
- [[!img winmo-connection-sharing.png alt="Windows Mobile Internet
+* Since my laptop was running on Ubuntu Lucid, there was already a
+ recent Blueman version in the Ubuntu repos available. On older
+ systems, you may want to add the [Blueman Launchpad PPA][5].
+
+ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:blueman/ppa # only necessary on pre-lucid systems
+ $ sudo aptitude update
+ $ sudo aptitude install blueman
+
+* Note that this also removes possibly installed `gnome-bluetooth`
+ packages since Blueman is an adequate replacement for the GNOME
+ Bluetooth UI.
+
+* After the installation has finished, I had to enable the NMPANSupport
+ plugin for NetworkManager 0.8 by right-clicking on the Blueman icon in
+ the GNOME notification area and selecting “Plugins”. For older
+ NetworkManager versions, there is also a plugin for NetworkManager
+ 0.7, called NMIntegration.
+
+ [[!img blueman-menu.png alt="Blueman context menu"]]
+ [[!img blueman-plugins.png alt="Blueman plugin page"]]
+ </div>
+
+* Then I activated tethering on my phone (“Programs” → “Internet
+ Sharing” on my Windows Mobile 6.1, but YMMV). Apparently this was
+ neccesary with my model, because without tethering enabled I could not
+ get a Bluetooth PAN connection in the next step.
+
+ [[!img winmo-program-menu.png alt="Windows Mobile Program screen"]]
+ [[!img winmo-connection-sharing.png alt="Windows Mobile Internet
Sharing application"]]
- </div >
-
-* I paired the phone and my laptop via Bluetooth, and created a PAN
- (Personal Area Network) by connecting to the “Network Access Point”
- service on the phone. In Blueman, all you have to do after pairing is
- right-click on the device and select “Connect To: Network Access
- Point”. This creates a new network device `bnep0` which is
- automagically configured through NetworkManager (using [stateless
- address autoconfiguration][6]).
-
- <div class="gallery">
- [[!img blueman-pan.png size=x100 alt="Blueman: Context menu for device
+ </div >
+
+* I paired the phone and my laptop via Bluetooth, and created a PAN
+ (Personal Area Network) by connecting to the “Network Access Point”
+ service on the phone. In Blueman, all you have to do after pairing is
+ right-click on the device and select “Connect To: Network Access
+ Point”. This creates a new network device `bnep0` which is
+ automagically configured through NetworkManager (using [stateless
+ address autoconfiguration][6]).
+
+ [[!img blueman-pan.png size=x100 alt="Blueman: Context menu for device
“Leia”, menu entry “Network Access Point” is selected"]]
- </div>
+ </div>
- (Yes, my phone is called [Leia][7]… I also have a yet another HTC
- Prophet for testing purposes, which is called [Luke][8] :-))
+ (Yes, my phone is called [Leia][7]… I also have a yet another HTC
+ Prophet for testing purposes, which is called [Luke][8] :-) )
-* However, in my setup, though I was able to ping certain IP adresses on
- the internet, DNS lookups timed out for some reason. It got better
- when I explicitly set an IP address for the Bluetooth PAN driver on my
- phone, and did the tethering process all over again.
+* However, in my setup, though I was able to ping certain IP adresses on
+ the internet, DNS lookups timed out for some reason. It got better
+ when I explicitly set an IP address for the Bluetooth PAN driver on my
+ phone, and did the tethering process all over again.
- <div class="gallery">
- [[!img winmo-connections.png alt="Windows Mobile System Settings
+ [[!img winmo-connections.png alt="Windows Mobile System Settings
Screen, with item “Wi-Fi” selected"]]
- [[!img winmo-networkdrivers.png alt="Windows Mobile Network Driver
+ [[!img winmo-networkdrivers.png alt="Windows Mobile Network Driver
settings screen, with menu item “Bluetooth PAN Driver” selected"]]
- [[!img winmo-bluetooth-ip.png alt="Windows Mobile Bluetooth PAN Driver
+ [[!img winmo-bluetooth-ip.png alt="Windows Mobile Bluetooth PAN Driver
settings screen"]]
- </div>
+ </div>
-* And off I went with mobile internet access. Woo-hoo! \o/
+* And off I went with mobile internet access. Woo-hoo! \o/
I may also add that the NetUsage plugin in Blueman is very reasonable to
use ;-) After activated, the network usage can be viewed by
[8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Skywalker
[[!tag Blueman bluetooth mobile_internet_access network NetworkManager
- Ubuntu Ubuntu_Lucid Windows_Mobile]]
+ Ubuntu Ubuntu_Lucid Windows_Mobile]]
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