GPRS Bluetooth connection....

Chanchao custom at freenet.de
Mon May 8 11:31:51 UTC 2006


It kinda works for me.. I followed the wiki
( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BluetoothDialup ) and I can connect to the
phone alright, dial up with a terminal command and I see the phone
establish a GPRS connection successfully..  Everything seems to work
except that I can't actually browse the web. :)

I wonder what the relation is between a GPRS bluetooth modem and the
'Modem' settings in System -> Administration -> Networking.. The ppp0
device becomes active after issueing the terminal command. But I can't
actually use it to enter the modem settings... Because it demands that a
username and password are filled in, which is not really applicable for
gprs connections through a phone.   But I CAN specify the modem
as /dev/rfcomm0 and when I enter a phone number it does seem to actually
try to dial on the phone..

It seems I'm so close but it doesn't actually work.. Any magic bullet
anyone?

Cheers,
Chanchao





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