Is it possible to manually activate an eth0 connection?

[NoOp]

On 01/16/2009 11:14 AM, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
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>> 
>> pan0 is "Personal Area Networking Profile (PAN)" used for Bluetooth. In
>> inrepid if you turn off Bluetooth services
>> (System|Administration|Services) - 'Bluetooth device management' and
>> rerun 'ifconfig -a' you will not longer see pan0. If you turn it back on
>> (Bluetooth device management) it will reapear.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Thanks much for explanation.
> Does that mean that you can have a PAN device, even if your laptop does 
> not have bluetooth?
> 
> Kind regards
> Eberhard
> 
> 

Yes - for instance you could use a bluetooth USB dongle etc. See:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluetooth