Re: Using bluetooth to get Internet access through a cell phone

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Alan Barrett wrote:
> I have a cell phone that supports various ways of getting Internet
> access (GPRS and UMTS).  Both the phone and my laptop support bluetooth.
>
> How do I tell the laptop to use the phone to get Inetrnet access?  I
> assume that it involves something like ppp over virtual com port over
> bluetooth, but I find NetBSD's bluetooth-related man pages to be very
> short on useful examples.

A while back I checked in examples pppd scripts as 
/usr/share/examples/pppd/telus* that I use to connect through my 
Blackberry with Bluetooth. The chat script ought to work for any 
GPRS/EDGE connection, not sure about UMTS. I also have the following in 
/etc/rc.conf:

        btattach=YES
        btconfig=YES
        btdevctl=YES
        bthcid=YES              bthcid_flags=""

and of course the phone needs to be paired with your laptop. The 
following URL should help:

        http://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php/Bluetooth#Serial_connections

Cheers,
Jared