Tethering with HTC Touch Pro -- how?

[Jack Twilley]

Alexander Motin wrote:
> Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> On 29/1/09 09:13, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>> Jack Twilley wrote:
>>>   
>>>> I have enabled internet connection sharing on my HTC Touch Pro by
>>>> modifying the registry.  The phone works for tethering on my Vista box
>>>> as expected.  How do I make it work on FreeBSD?
>>>>     
>>> I am successfully using my Qtek S200 with WM6.1 as plain Bluetooth
>>> GPRS/EDGE modem. BT PAN profile could be better for internet sharing; I
>>> haven't seen it implemented, but there were some activity. Sharing via
>>> USB cable requires RNDIS support, which is also not implemented, AFAIK
>>> due to buggy and undocumented protocol.
>>>   
>> Just as a quick appendium, bluetooth PAN support got added to -CURRENT a
>> couple of days ago.
>>  I'll try and dig out my old HTC Hermes and test it, will report back if
>> I do.
> 
> I have even tested it already and replied on freebsd-bluetooth at . It
> works fine with my Qtek S200 with WM6.1.
> 

I went to the freebsd-bluetooth mailing list archives and saw that it 
worked, but nobody's actually posted anything on how to do it, starting 
from a system with a recent -CURRENT and a phone that can do the right 
thing.

I was able to use the FreeBSD Handbook chapter on Bluetooth to do stuff 
like successfully pair my phone and my laptop.  I was able to search for 
nap and opush with sdpcontrol and see a screen or so each of output but 
I didn't quite see what to do next.  The chapter talks about searching 
and browsing services, and I can run the commands and get output, but it 
doesn't quite make enough sense for me to move forward.  If you can 
document what you did to make it work, what commands and configuration 
files and all, that'd be really really helpful to those of us who aren't 
as familiar with Bluetooth as you guys and just want to tether our laptops.

Thanks!

Jack.