Tethering with HTC Touch Pro -- how?

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Dmitry Kolosov <ivakras1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:24:25 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 cant find any instrustions how\where to download\install\configure btpand for
> 7-STABLE environment. Or maybe i should just wait some time and btpand will be
> included in 7-STABLE update? If so, how long that time will be?

svn/cvs is your friend :)

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SVN rev 187938 on 2009-01-30 22:23:21Z by emax

Add btpand(8) daemon from NetBSD. This daemon provides support for
Bluetooth Network Access Point (NAP), Group Ad-hoc Network (GN) and
Personal Area Network User (PANU) profiles.

Obtained from:	NetBSD
MFC after:	1 month

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thanks,
max