{"id":81,"date":"2010-06-01T02:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2010-06-01T02:33:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T06:33:56","slug":"networkmanager-0-8-1-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/networkmanager-0-8-1-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"NetworkManager 0.8.1 How-To"},"content":{"rendered":"

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).<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

Make sure your bluetooth applet is started (if not, launch bluetooth-applet), open it’s menu
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\"Menu
Menu of the bluetooth-applet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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and select preferences
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\"Bluetooth
Bluetooth Preferences<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

In case your phone is already listed as paired, I’m afraid you have to remove it (I did not find a way to change options of an already paired device).Otherwise, you can go straight ahead and configure a new device:
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\"Bluetooth
Bluetooth Wizard: Configure new device<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

If your phone has bluetooth enabled, it should show up in the list like:
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\"Select
Select my phone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Next, bluetooth-wizard will present you with a 6 digit combination that you have to enter on your phone keyboard, to confirm that you do want these devices to pair together.<\/p>\n

The ‘setup complete’ is only almost true, as it contains the for us most important options:
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\"Private
Private Area Network<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

For my phone, I have to select PAN, which in the background of the system created a \/dev\/rfcomm0 device and binds it to NetworkManager (via ModemManager), as can be seen in the list of available connections in Network Manager:
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\"My
My Phone Network shows up in NetworkManager<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

When selecting it (I only had success when not wired, you might have more luck) NM initiates a connection and the symbol in the tray area changes to an antenna: \"panel-nmconnected\" and I have a working connection to the internet through the bluetooth adapted of my phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to connect to the internet using NetworkManager 0.8.1 and a ‘bluetooth modem’ (Nokia 6300 in my case)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-opensuse","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}