Let check your source list first:

O.K.
I am making real progress now using your method!

From a clean boot of my N900 using my Macbook as client:

I immediately initiate a PAN request from the Mac, it connects.
I then run your script.
I can ping 192.168.1.1 and successfully ssh into the N900 from the PAN.

BUT...

The phone isn't asking to start an internet connnection.
I'm going to start my gprs0 interface before initiating the PAN and see how that works...

First, the repos:

I tried starting my gprs connection prior to running your script.
If I do that I can't PAN to the phone.
Otherwise the PAN works fine, but the script doesn't prompt me to start an internet connection.

Ugh. I read back through the thread and looked at WorldKaoss' posts.
He seemed to have the same problems.
I can't get my head round this pc-connectivity-manager thing.
I'm ticking the box for bluetooth in the "none" profile but it just keeps complaining that the phone won't pair.

edit: just found your post which says no need to configure anything there.

Oh well.
I've made some progress I guess. At least I can establish a point to point PAN connection even if there is no internet sharing.

I guess I'll leave this for a while and come back to it.

If the PAN is successfully established and you could ping from both sides then it's already 90% success. It makes no different whether the gprs0 was activated before or after the script. The script must be activated after pairing up, though.

In this caes, there are two possible obstacles get in your way:

1) The default routing of your Mac is not the N900, or the DNS was not setup probably. You would like to check this out
2) The iptables on N900 was not running successfully. You may issue the following command alone after the 4.3.1 script to see if there's any error in iptables:

WorldKaoss's problem is very different from yours. Obviously there's something in the Windows 7's setting got in his way, however he does not seem to want to pursuit the case any further.

If you could establish PAN and could ping from both side then you can forget pc-connectivity-manager. I'm sure the removal of 'network' from the DisablePlugins did the trick as well. From my experience telling people with no Linux experience to edit a system file is thousand times more dangerous than install a package. It's good that you've experience in Linux.

Good luck and tell me the result.

The thing is - imagine I have not started gprs0.
I get the PAN working and then open a shell on the Mac.
I start pinging the phone and it is of course successful.
So I then start gprs on the phone... immediately my pings from the Mac fail.

Surely this can't be routing or DNS on the Mac side? The route to the phone shouldn't change after I start gprs! And I haven't even start dealing with domain names yet so DNS can't be an issue.

Very hard to work out how enabling gprs seems to break the PAN.

I've got it working!
Adding DNS seems to have fixed things.
Sorry to have put you through all this grief!

Thanks so much for your hard work!

That's great. Welcome to the PAN party. I think you're one of the very few people in the world actually use PAN for tethering.

For DHCP and Auto DNS configuration, you can inspire from:
http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_USB_router

Just add before stand-alone command:


PS: tested and it works with Windows 7, but probably you'll have to renew dns lease:

I'll experiment with it and then update the script in #1. Thanks for your hints.