I'm trying to tether my N900 over BT to my MacBook. It's worked before, but recently decided to cease working.

I followed the tutorial, and am using Bluetooth DUN from my MacBook with the Telephone Number *99# and the 3G modem type under "Advanced" with epc.tmobile.com.

When I try to connect, it just sits there and disconnects eventually.

On my N900, dmesg reports:
Phonet unknown PEP type: 1

I searched around to no avail, ideas?
Tethering over USB worked fine last time I tried it.

Thanks!

I ocasionally had this same issue. What I did was to unpair the phone and pair it again, and the problem went away.

eb

I've tried that a few times... I'll give it another go in the morning I guess and see if the phone gods have blessed me.

Still no luck. Deleted the other device from each one (N900 from MacBook, MacBook from N900).

Any other thoughts?

strange that, i had the same problem with my 5800 a while back but worked perfectly with my n96, not tried it yet with my n900

gav

I have seen this a few times and normally you can just unpair and remove the devices on both side (OSX and N900) then just pair again.

In some extreme cases I had to reflash but I think that was more I was building some Python app that was playing fun with my phone.

aspen, have you found any solution? I'm getting this error too (I'm just connecting from Linux, not from Mac). I tried pairing the devices few times but it still does not work...:-(

I haven't yet. Even PR1.2 doesn't fix it. I'll try a complete reflash when I have a chance to.

Hi,

i have the same problem now.
I get this message in dmesg over BT and USB. Tried unpairing but to no avail.
Reinstalled BT DUN package already.
What else can I do?

Regards
Aydan

One year ago I found that tethering works only when the N900 itself does *not* use 3G data.
With 3G data disconnected in status menu tethering internet to my MacBook works nicely. Odd.