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ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

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PC - Phone connection sharing via bluetooth?

Hi! Im trying to share DSL connection from my PC to my phone via bluetooth.
I have found the guide, but it is for debian. So conf files are not same, can someone help me with this?
http://www.howtoforge.com/bluetooth_pand_debian_etch
Ty in advance.

ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

Re: PC - Phone connection sharing via bluetooth?

Ok, found it. Blueman supports that feature. And it works, ok... it works on PC (access point) but not on client (Nokia 6303).
Just cant configure Nokia to go on internet via bluetooth, it just want to use gprs.

eDio

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From: Ukraine, Kyiv

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 422

Re: PC - Phone connection sharing via bluetooth?

Your phone should support some specific BT profile to be able to connect via BT I believe.

I tried to do the same with my Samsung L870 (S60 Symbian 9.3 FP2), but then I've found, that it doesn't support some BT profile.
I used gnubox by the way.

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ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

Re: PC - Phone connection sharing via bluetooth?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74349

This topic shows how that works without blueman-applet gui. As far I can tell it does the same.
But it still does not work on my mobile phone. Nokia tech specifications say that phone should auto-configure that kind of connection and divert all apps to use it. But that does not happen. Only software update app on my phone tries to use it, but after some 300kb of data, it says that network is not avaliable.
Could it be that something is wrong with NAT or dhcp?
Blueman requests for dhclient, or dnsmasq. I use dhcpd v5, as it is arch default package. And I have installed dnsmasq.
Maybe it is needed to configure dnsmasq? But I dont know what to do, as there is no guides on interenet, most of tutorials use propertary applications like BlueSoeil.