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#49
Originally Posted by HRH_H_Crab View Post
There seems to be an awful lot of contradictory posts about setting up the phone as a PAN server. I read your post, but then I saw this:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_Unsu...tooth_profiles

I have removed "network" from the list of disabled plugins and my Macbook now sees the phone supports the PAN service. However its not picking up an IP address (it auto-configures itself from the 169 range) and bnep0 on the phone has no address bound.

I wonder if I need to manually configure IP on each side and mess around with iptables to get routing happening.

Either way this is one feature that worked a lot better on my ancient Sony Ericsson W595!
Regarding the wiki you mentioned, I don't think you can find maemo-pan in N900's repositories....yet.

The article I wrote and the script I posted is exactly telling you how to establish PAN by manually configuring IP on both side. The iptables is just there to establish Internet sharing thingy. I could have packaged it but since I don't think there are too many people using PAN anyway....so...

As a matter of fact you're one of the very few people who are actually interested in PAN. Yep, N900 is awesome, but so far not much people would really appreciate its power. Bluetooth PAN is in fact perfect for tethering for N900, due to its extremely low power consumption.

Enjoy.

Last edited by 9000; 2010-11-11 at 17:07.