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Bug 611849 - Support Bluetooth dial-up networking (start rfcomm for a given device)
Support Bluetooth dial-up networking (start rfcomm for a given device)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 432774
Product: gnome-bluetooth
Classification: Core
Component: applet
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-bluetooth-general-maint@gnome.bugs
gnome-bluetooth-general-maint@gnome.bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-04 22:46 UTC by Thomas Perl
Modified: 2010-03-04 23:44 UTC
See Also:
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Description Thomas Perl 2010-03-04 22:46:07 UTC 
I can get Bluetooth dial-up networking started on my GNOME desktop by using the following command:

rfcomm connect 0 $BLUETOOTH_ADDRESS_OF_DEVICE

When I finished, I simply kill that process. It would be nice if the Gnome-Bluetooth applet could provide such a features in the same way that "send file" is provided. Ideally, first the connection is set up by starting rfcomm and then a new menu item appears ("Stop dial-up networking") which will simply kill the rfcomm process.

Everything else (dialing, etc..) can already be handled from the NetworkManager applet, it's just that the rfcomm channel has to be set up manually for now. Some people user Blueman for that, I'd like to stick with Gnome-Bluetooth.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-03-04 23:44:53 UTC 
That's a bad way to do integration, this isn't Blueman ;)
NetworkManager already has DUN support anyway.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 432774 ***