Tethering with HTC Touch Pro -- how?

[Alexander Motin]

Jack Twilley wrote:
> 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.

I have written such script for myself:

#!/bin/sh

trap "/usr/bin/killall btpand" SIGINT

ifconfig tap10 create && \
btpand -d acer -a s200 -s NAP -i tap10 && \
sleep 1 && \
dhclient tap10 && \
echo Running... && \
while pgrep btpand >/dev/null
do
     sleep 2
done &&
printf 'Terminated\a'
echo
ifconfig tap10 destroy

acer is the my system name and s200 is my phone name, both addresses 
added to /etc/bluetooth/hosts. If devices are peered, no other 
configuration required. The only thing needed in my case is to l2ping 
phone several times before connecting, to wake it's BT up.

-- 
Alexander Motin