Internet/bluetooth problem

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:54:18AM +0100, Herman-Peter Cook wrote:
> I want to access the internet through my Samsung SGH-E250 Cellphone.

That is possible but not easy.

> I am using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS 64 bit.
> I have a bluetooth dongle.
> When I try to pair my pc with Cellphone, from the phone, my cellphone
> says that it is unable to pair, but it does find the pc on my phone.

Ubuntu 6.06 is a bit oldish and didn't work with Bluetooth well.  As far
as I can remember, you had to install the bluez-pin package and possibly
also restart /etc/init.d/bluez-utils to make the bluetooth daemon
inherit your environment so that it could pop up a dialog to ask for a
PIN.

I *think* pairing should Just Work with the newest Ubuntu version.  I still
don't know if you can configure dialup with a GUI tool without having to
edit text configuration files.

Anyway, here's a page that describes the whole process:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup

> I am new to Ubuntu and can't even run normal programs! For instance
> when I want to watch a movie it tells me that it doesn't want to work.

It's not really Ubuntu's fault.  There are patent and copyright
restrictions on the codecs needed watch movies that make it impossible
for Ubuntu to distribute them by default.  Newer versions at least make
it much easier for you to get them.

This page tells you how you can do that:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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