Comments on: HowTo: Setup your Nokia N95 mobile phone as a Mobile Broadband Device via Bluetooth in Ubuntu Jaunty

By: HyRax

HyRax — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:50:51 +0000

The latest Blueman stack and PulseAudio packages allows setting up Bluetooth headsets and microphones, but it’s still VERY buggy and crashes a lot, so I have not bothered to write a new HowTo tutorial for it yet until it matures a bit.

By: suyog

suyog — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:14:10 +0000

@Hyrax, I was really struggling to get my BH-501 to work in Ubuntu 9.04 but you post helped me a lot. but did you find any solution for using Bluetooth Headfone for handling phone calls? or just using microphone?

By: HyRax

HyRax — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:32:01 +0000

bnep0? Why are you creating a Bluetooth Network connection? We’re not accessing the Internet over Bluetooth, we’re using packet data over your mobile phone’s network. The Bluetooth connection in this tutorial is simply a link between your PC and your phone, replacing the need to use cables such as USB.

Regardless of what medium you are going over, most Internet connections to an ISP are done via PPP, and the Mobile Broadband tool in Ubuntu sets up a “ppp0″ device to do just that. Doesn’t matter if I’m using POTS, 2G, 3G, or HSDPA to talk to the ISP (in my case, Vodafone).

Your phone is just a conduit. It sounds to me what you are doing is actually establishing the Internet connection from your mobile phone itself (as opposed to your PC) and then having to share out that connection to allow your PC to use it. Your mobile phone is effectively a proxy instead of a standalone modem.

Check with your provider. I seem to recall that in the UK, mobile carriers there are bastards enough to block packet data for PC’s (but allow the phone itself access) and charge exorbitant amounts of money to enable using your phone as a modem for your PC, instead preferring you to buy a separate mobile USB dongle or what-not on an expensive plan instead. Here in Australia, packet data is generally just included and charged at whatever rate, or they include a quota up to a certain amount of data (eg: 1GB per month) with your plan.

As for my site’s background, if you’re saving the page as a raw local HTML file (why? just bookmark me!) it should render as a normal undecorated page with black text on a white background in your browser.

By: Dimon

Dimon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:04:25 +0000

I still beleaguered why I can only access Internet after established DUN connection first, and than Network Access Point connection.
After that I can connect via bnep0 interface.
If I try to connect through Network Provider it doesn’t work.
And even then if I reconnect bluetooth it doesn’t work.
I have to delete profiles from mobile phone and PC, reboot, restart and reconnect from a fresh than it works again.

Re:background: its nice when you see the page live on Internet but if you save it, its hard to read it.

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:19:47 +0000

Hahaha – I like my Ubuntu browniness!

By: Dimon

Dimon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:52:21 +0000

Nice guide but the combination of the background and foreground color is awful.
The other thing is I was able to connect to Internet using Network Access Point rather than DUN on my W850i.
Otherwise the best guide I’ve ever seen.
Thanks!!!

By: HowTo: Pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Jaunty for file transfers etc. | The HyRax Macrocosm

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:06:46 +0000

[...] up, you need to follow the first 15 steps of my guide on how to seutp a Nokia N95 mobile phone as a Mobile Broadband Device because we need to update the version of the Bluez Bluetooth stack and pair your mobile phone. Once [...]

By: HowTo: Setup your Nokia N95 mobile phone as a Mobile Broadband Device via USB in Ubuntu Intrepid | The HyRax Macrocosm

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:09:18 +0000

[...] EDIT August 2009: If you wish to setup your Nokia N95 using Bluetooth instead of a USB cable, then stop reading any further and refer to my updated article for Bluetooth using Ubuntu Jaunty. [...]