Re: BT DUN based systemconnections in 0.8.1 beta

[van Schelve <public van-schelve de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.05.2010, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Dan Williams
<dcbw redhat com>:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:01 +0200, van Schelve wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, den 25.05.2010, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Bastien Nocera
>> <hadess hadess net>:
>> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:11 +0200, van Schelve wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> I'm still having problems with bluetooth dun based system
connections
>> in
>> >> 0.8.1 beta:
>> >> 
>> >> 1. No ui in nm-applet is available
>> >> 2. if created from scratch as system-connection they not shown in
>> >> nm-applet
>> >> 
>> >> With cnetworkmanager I'm able to list such a connection but I'm not
>> able
>> >> to bring it up with
>> >> this tool. In this context, can someone explain the commandline
>> interface
>> >> of networkmanager to me?
>> >> 
>> >> On http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ReleaseProcess I found that
BT
>> >> DUN
>> >> should be included 
>> >> in the 0.8.1 release. Can someone clarify this? If dun
>> systemconnections
>> >> are not part of 0.8.1 release
>> >> can someone tell me what's missing?
>> > 
>> > You need to pair your device using gnome-bluetooth's wizard, and the
>> > wizard to set up DUN will appear on the last page.
>> > 
>> > Cheers
>> 
>> Hi Bastien,
>> thank you for your reply but that's not what I'm looking for. What I
need
>> is 
>> a systemconnection that can be stored in
>> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
>> like it can be done with 3G based as well. On the other hand there is
>> nothing
>> in nm-applet to modify a exiisting bluetooth connection. So for example
>> if
>> you
>> have different APN's you cannot easy change it.
> 
> With 0.8.1-beta2 (just uploaded) you can use the following syntax:
> 
>
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/plain/system-settings/plugins/keyfile/tests/keyfiles/ATT_Data_Connect_BT?id=d422ce42c400611369a6951bbc9dc012515a3e5b
> 
> of course, the device has to be paired with Bluez (or some bluetooth
> manager like gnome-bluetooth) first.
> 
> Dan

Hi Dan,

I checked out the latest git versions and it really works now. Thank you
for this! I will do intensive testing in the next days.

Hans-Gerd