Using Nokia E71 as a USB modem on Jaunty

[Amichai Rotman]

I am having problems with using Bluetooth with my Nokia E71 since
upgrading to Jaunty. I thought of re-installing from scratch. Am I to
understand Blutooth is broken in Jaunty all together?  Should I go
back to 8.04 or 8.10 ?!

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Amichai Rotman

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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 23:43, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> Amichai Rotman said:
>
>> I am trying to set up my Nokia E71 to serve as a backup 3G Internet.
>>
>> I cannot follow any of the guides I found because the phone is not
>> recognized:
>>
>> I connect the USB cable to the computer, nothing happens. I do lsusb and
>> nothing new is there . In Hardy I used to see Nokia Mobile Phone on the
>> list...
>> I tried this on my desktop Kubuntu 9.04 and on my Asus eeePC running
>> Ubuntu Mobile Remix base on Ubuntu 9.04.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> I've been doing this with an e61 for a couple of years. I use bluetooth.
>
> Unfortunately, after moving to 9.04, bluetooth seems to have died a
> death. I can crash bluetooth at will (with SIGSEGV). I've filled bugs,
> but never received a response. Unfortunately, now we're "officially" out
> of beta, without symbols in the compiles, the backtraces are useless, so
> I no longer file bugs against it.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc
>
> "Change requires small steps."
>
>
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