Connect phone to Telstra NextG using Ubuntu?

[David Whyte]

On 11/2/07, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm feeling conspicuously dumb today (as you'll see below), so I hope you
> or someone will take pity on me and help me find my way.

I do understand.  I am just having an uber busy day at work so can't
really take the time out to help now.  I will do what I can below...

>
> Where do I find the "PAN bluetooth profile"? Is that in Network Settings?
> (System > Admin > Network) I find there two "Wired" connections, one of
> which is PAN0; that's the only "PAN" I find -- but why does it say "wired"?
> Or do I have to manually edit a file somewhere?

I think that is for Ubuntu being the PAN server.  I didn't mess with
that, but it is turned off for me and pan0 has gone from the network
settings GUI.

>
> I find the bluetooth applet more than "a little confusing". Can you help me
> figure this out?
>
> I have a little bluetooth symbol on the top panel, labelled "Bluetooth
> Manager". When I right-click on it, I get three choices: Preferences,
> About, and Browse Device. I assume that is the applet you are talking
> about. (I also have on my System > Preference menu "Bluetooth Preferences"
> which opens the same dialog that is opened from the other Bluetooth >
> Preferences choice.)

You have to first pair the phone.  I did this from my Windows Mobile
phone as there doesn't seem to be a nice graphical user interface
(GUI) for this in Ubuntu.  My phone then showed up when I went into
preferences.

Then you need to know the hardware address of the phone, which is in
the format of NN:NN:NN:NN (off the top of my head).

Then I had to start the PAN server on the phone and connect to it from
Ubuntu by typing the command *similar* to the following..

sudo pand --connect NN:NN:NN:NN -n

where I substitute my phones address from above.

>
> When I select "Browse Device" my phone shows up in the little dialog, but
> when I click Connect, I get an error message: "obex://[00:1d:98:7f:e8:27]"
> is not a valid location. Please check the spelling and try again." Huh?
> What have I not done, or done wrong? What should I do?

I don't think Windows Mobile is supporting the correct profile to
allow things to browse the device.  I don't know what profile that is
though.

>
> Also, I don't know what I should choose in the Preferences. On the Services
> tab I decided to tick everything, in case that helped. On the tab that is
> labelled with my adapter name, what if anything should I see in "Bonded
> devices"?

Yeah, these don't help connecting as a PAN client.  This is where I
think the extra GUI should be though.

>
> My phone offers to exchange a passcode with the computer, but I have no
> idea where to input the passcode on the computer.

My BT icon in the top tray flashes.  You have to click the flashing icon.

>
> Thanks for any clues you can give me. If you're young, think of how you
> might explain it to your grandmother; I'm in that age group. I have enough
> trouble figuring out how to use the features on the phone! :-)

Heh, no problem.  You may have to wait until tonight though :P