[Bluez-users] Bluetooth modem

[Bluez-users] Bluetooth modem

[Rüdiger Härtel]

Hello,

I am interested in using bluetooth to connect to a modem. I found 
two products:
- Acer Bluetooth (ww.Acer.de -> Products->Kommunikation)
- Typhoon Bluetooth modem 
(http://www.anubisline.com/german/articlec.asp?id=20008&catid=200).

Has anyone experience with these modems ? Was it difficult to get 
them working ?
What about the distance? Originally defined for 10 m now devices 
supporting 100 m; How far does it reach within a house ? How many 
walls is it able to get through ?



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Marcel reminded me to ask here instead of asking him directly. So 
here is my question that was answered by him:

> I am considering to use a bluetooth modem from acer. I think it 
> should work but I know to little about the software components to 
> be used. Can you say a little bit about it.
> 
> For example:
> When the bluetooth stick is plugged in and everything is ok, ie. 
> linux detects it. How do I proceed to tell wvdial/smpppd where to 
> connect to ?
> 
> Haven't found any pointers to this topic. Only AVM fritz. But I 
> think that is different because it uses ISDN. But I'll have a 
read.

You know that such a question should be posted to the BlueZ users
mailing list. However these modem are no different from the dialup
procedures over mobile phones. You need to create the /dev/rfcomm0
device node with the rfcomm program and then use whatever dialer you
normally use for /dev/ttyS0.


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Re: [Bluez-users] Bluetooth modem

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Ruediger,

> I am interested in using bluetooth to connect to a modem. I found 
> two products:
> - Acer Bluetooth (ww.Acer.de -> Products->Kommunikation)
> - Typhoon Bluetooth modem 
> (http://www.anubisline.com/german/articlec.asp?id=20008&catid=200).
> 
> Has anyone experience with these modems ? Was it difficult to get 
> them working ?

in general I expect something like this will work:

	rfcomm bind 0 <bdaddr> 1

After that you can use /dev/rfcomm0 like you would have used /dev/ttyS0
before.

Regards

Marcel




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