GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 559070
Dialup is not possible anymore
Last modified: 2008-11-03 21:37:28 UTC
Please return DUN back. I could connect GPRS in 0.6. Here, supposedly, I can use only PCMCIA cards to connect GPRS/3G. And I would like to use Bluetooth! For this I need a place to enter modem device: /dev/modem, /dev/rfcomm0 etc. This feature request is small, but very, very usable.
No, it's not really a small request; there's a lot more to it. BT is definitely coming in the near future. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 432774 ***
I didn't mean BT, i mean Modem. It worked in 0.6.
Also this is not a duplicate. Bug #432774 requests for a bt interaction, and here I request for modem interaction.
You said: I could connect GPRS in 0.6. Here, supposedly, I can use only PCMCIA cards to connect GPRS/3G. And I would like to use Bluetooth! which I understood to mean you want GPRS/3G dial-up using Bluetooth. Non-BT 3G should already work in 0.7.
I used GPRS BT dialup in 0.6. I manually created /dev/rfcomm0 and pointed to NM 0.6 this as a modem device. It worked well (more or less). Now there is no modem functionality at all.
Correct, NM 0.7.0 does not support Bluetooth dialup, which you are using. How it's exposed is not relevant; it's still a Bluetooth device. The previous "dialup" support was a hack and completely unsustainable going forward (not to mention that NM had absolutely no idea of the status of the connection due to this), and it's going to be fixed up in a more integrated and robust manner soon.