Connect phone to Telstra NextG using Ubuntu?
Karl Bowden
karlbowden at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 12:18:58 GMT 2007
Ok, I can confirm that this does work on my nokia 6110 with optus.
For optus the only thing I had to change was the reference to
"telstra.internet" to just "internet" in /etc/opt/bigpond-connect
The only difference between connecting with my nokia was changing the
bluetooth mac address and channel in the rfcomm line.
I have created a second set of connect script's for connecting with my
optus phone and now have both options in NetworkManager. Quite chuffed
I am.
Karl
On 11/2/07, Karl Bowden <karlbowden at gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, dun and pan are the two main ways of 'networking' via bluetooth.
> I'm far from an expert on this but - from what I understand:
>
> pan forms a more traditional style network with the bluetooth device
> your connecting to. More akin to the phone being a wireless broadband
> router.
>
> dun forms a Dial Up Network connection VIA the phone. So using the
> phone as a modem you can access the internet via the phone, but the
> phone itself is not an addressable part of that network.
>
> pan would be my perferred more flexible way of getting internet access
> and allows some interesting possibilities for networking with the
> phone, but i've never been able to setup a pan connection to my nokia
> 6110 or wm5 jasjam.
>
> I have not tried a dun connection via my nokia yet, but I will try and
> get round to it within a couple of days. My nokia's with optus and has
> fairly hefty data charges on the plan i'm on.
>
> So to make a long story short. I would recommend you trying a 'dun'
> internet connection first. That's the way most of the nokia software
> in windows will connect you to the internet.
> One thing that took me forever to figure out was that telstra told me
> I didnt need a usernamd and password to use the internet via the
> phone. Which although true, my laptop would not finish connecting
> until i put in the user "guest" line and the corrosponding chap and
> pap lines. It should not matter what the username and password are,
> i've just used guest/guest. But without it pppd was not finishing
> establishing a connection.
>
> Karl
>
>
> On 11/2/07, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > David Whyte wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > No worries. I'm not in any great hurry. (I should have said that earlier.)
> > Today I got a bit further, following your instructions belows, and with a
> > few clues from Karl Bowden's note. (Thanks, Karl.)
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I have now managed to pair the two.
> >
> > > 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).
> >
> > This one had me stumped for awhile, until Karl mentioned hcitool scan. That
> > got me the number, which is 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27. Then I got the channel
> > number (2) using sdptool search dun
> >
> > Do I need to do the third step Karl mentioned?
> > sudo rfcomm bind 0 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 2
> >
> > Do I need the 3 files he mentioned?
> >
> > > Then I had to start the PAN server on the phone
> >
> > I'm not sure what the "PAN server on the phone" is or how to start it.
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I did that and got this:
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ sudo pand --connect 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 -n
> > pand[22441]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 3.19
> > pand[22441]: Connecting to 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27
> > pand[22441]: Connect to 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 failed. Connection refused(111)
> >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > I'm not using a Windows Mobile phone. It's a Nokia. Not sure whether that
> > makes any difference; may still be a profile problem... whatever a profile
> > is and wherever it might be hiding. :-)
> >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > OK, this worked this time and I was able to pair it. However, I'm still
> > getting the obex error message mentioned earlier.
> >
> > Well, I've made progress today, but still have aways to go.
> >
> > I've included the output of my whole session below, in case you or someone
> > can interpret it for more clues.
> >
> > --Jean
> >
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ hcitool scan
> > Scanning ...
> > 00:10:C6:5F:FE:4C D63WCF1S
> > 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 Nokia 6120 classic
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ sdptool search dun
> > Inquiring ...
> > Searching for dun on 00:10:C6:5F:FE:4C ... {{This is the other computer}}
> > Service Name: Dial-up Networking
> > Service RecHandle: 0x10005
> > Service Class ID List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Protocol Descriptor List:
> > "L2CAP" (0x0100)
> > "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
> > Channel: 5
> > Language Base Attr List:
> > code_ISO639: 0x656e
> > encoding: 0x6a
> > base_offset: 0x100
> > Profile Descriptor List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Version: 0x0100
> >
> > Searching for dun on 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 ... {{This is the phone}}
> > Service Name: Dial-Up Networking
> > Service RecHandle: 0x10002
> > Service Class ID List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Protocol Descriptor List:
> > "L2CAP" (0x0100)
> > "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
> > Channel: 2
> > Language Base Attr List:
> > code_ISO639: 0x454e
> > encoding: 0x6a
> > base_offset: 0x100
> > Profile Descriptor List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Version: 0x0100
> >
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ sudo rfcomm bind 0 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 2
> > [sudo] password for jeanweber:
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ sdptool search dun
> > Inquiring ...
> > Searching for dun on 00:10:C6:5F:FE:4C ...
> > Service Name: Dial-up Networking
> > Service RecHandle: 0x10005
> > Service Class ID List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Protocol Descriptor List:
> > "L2CAP" (0x0100)
> > "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
> > Channel: 5
> > Language Base Attr List:
> > code_ISO639: 0x656e
> > encoding: 0x6a
> > base_offset: 0x100
> > Profile Descriptor List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Version: 0x0100
> >
> > Searching for dun on 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 ...
> > Service Name: Dial-Up Networking
> > Service RecHandle: 0x10002
> > Service Class ID List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Protocol Descriptor List:
> > "L2CAP" (0x0100)
> > "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
> > Channel: 2
> > Language Base Attr List:
> > code_ISO639: 0x454e
> > encoding: 0x6a
> > base_offset: 0x100
> > Profile Descriptor List:
> > "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
> > Version: 0x0100
> >
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ sudo pand --connect
> > jeanweber at jean07:~$ sudo pand --connect 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 -n
> > pand[22441]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 3.19
> > pand[22441]: Connecting to 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27
> > pand[22441]: Connect to 00:1D:98:7F:E8:27 failed. Connection refused(111)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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