NetworkManager 0.8.1 How-To

Recently, I prepared NetworkManager 0.8.1 packages (many of you seemed to like them, so I updated the available ones also to 0.8.1beta2).

Nevertheless, it seems to be un-intuitive on how to initiate a connection using this new feature, so I’ll try to provide a short step-by-step here on how I did get it to work using my very old Nokia 6300 (yes, that’s actually a pure telephone).

Make sure your bluetooth applet is started (if not, launch bluetooth-applet), open it’s menu

Menu of the bluetooth-applet

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