Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:28:11 +0200 From: Alexander Motin <mav@mavhome.dp.ua> To: Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> Cc: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tethering with HTC Touch Pro -- how? Message-ID: <4993CF8B.2030103@mavhome.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <1234419790.00074006.1234407602@10.7.7.3> References: <1233145383.00067348.1233133205@10.7.7.3> <1233231789.00067817.1233220802@10.7.7.3> <1233761002.00070820.1233750002@10.7.7.3> <1233761005.00070824.1233750602@10.7.7.3> <1234419790.00074006.1234407602@10.7.7.3>
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Jack Twilley wrote:
> Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>>> On 29/1/09 09:13, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>>> Jack Twilley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have enabled internet connection sharing on my HTC Touch Pro by
>>>>> modifying the registry. The phone works for tethering on my Vista box
>>>>> as expected. How do I make it work on FreeBSD?
>>>>>
>>>> I am successfully using my Qtek S200 with WM6.1 as plain Bluetooth
>>>> GPRS/EDGE modem. BT PAN profile could be better for internet sharing; I
>>>> haven't seen it implemented, but there were some activity. Sharing via
>>>> USB cable requires RNDIS support, which is also not implemented, AFAIK
>>>> due to buggy and undocumented protocol.
>>>>
>>> Just as a quick appendium, bluetooth PAN support got added to -CURRENT a
>>> couple of days ago.
>>> I'll try and dig out my old HTC Hermes and test it, will report back if
>>> I do.
>>
>> I have even tested it already and replied on freebsd-bluetooth@. It
>> works fine with my Qtek S200 with WM6.1.
>
> I went to the freebsd-bluetooth mailing list archives and saw that it
> worked, but nobody's actually posted anything on how to do it, starting
> from a system with a recent -CURRENT and a phone that can do the right
> thing.
>
> I was able to use the FreeBSD Handbook chapter on Bluetooth to do stuff
> like successfully pair my phone and my laptop. I was able to search for
> nap and opush with sdpcontrol and see a screen or so each of output but
> I didn't quite see what to do next. The chapter talks about searching
> and browsing services, and I can run the commands and get output, but it
> doesn't quite make enough sense for me to move forward. If you can
> document what you did to make it work, what commands and configuration
> files and all, that'd be really really helpful to those of us who aren't
> as familiar with Bluetooth as you guys and just want to tether our laptops.
I have written such script for myself:
#!/bin/sh
trap "/usr/bin/killall btpand" SIGINT
ifconfig tap10 create && \
btpand -d acer -a s200 -s NAP -i tap10 && \
sleep 1 && \
dhclient tap10 && \
echo Running... && \
while pgrep btpand >/dev/null
do
sleep 2
done &&
printf 'Terminated\a'
echo
ifconfig tap10 destroy
acer is the my system name and s200 is my phone name, both addresses
added to /etc/bluetooth/hosts. If devices are peered, no other
configuration required. The only thing needed in my case is to l2ping
phone several times before connecting, to wake it's BT up.
--
Alexander Motin
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