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[Tony Arnold]

Chanchao wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:02 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> 
> 
>>You do realise, of course, that the reverse happens as well?  I still
>>haven't got Bluetooth working worth a damn under Ubuntu.  It was about
>>five minutes' effort to get full functionality out of my phone
>>(including HID!) under Windows using exactly the same Bluetooth
>>hardware.  Five minutes vs. about five months (and counting!).  
> 
> 
> I'm counting a lot longer than that.. :)  While the basic hardware seems
> to be recognized by Dapper, it doesn't actually *DO* anything, there's
> no window to do pairing, or send a file.  And that's just the basic
> things, what I really need is be online on GRPS through bluetooth.. 

I've had this working! But it took a long time to get a working
solution. I've now changed my phone from a nokia to a motorola model,
and I'm back to square one. Part of the issue is figuring out the modem
initialisation string to put the phone into GPRS mode. Then there is
configuring an rfcomm device followed by pppd chat scripts. Not easy by
any standards.

Regards,
Tony.
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