From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <17088774.1285100186795.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rustique.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:16:26 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Mumia W Reply-To: Mumia W To: list-linux-bluetooth Subject: Re: Need complete docs on PAN and DUN with bluez 4.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz >Sent: Sep 21, 2010 6:06 AM >To: Arun Kumar >Cc: Mumia W , linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: Need complete docs on PAN and DUN with bluez 4.66 > >Hi, > >On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Arun Kumar wrote: >> Depends on what role you want to use pand for ...pand is launched as a >> daemon via command line with set of options you may want to use it for >> your requirements ... > >I wouldn't suggest using pand nor dund because they are deprecated. > >PAN is really dead simple, Network.Connect() returns the network >interface in case of success and both NetworkManager and connman >should be able to use them, in fact I think both already have specif >PAN support to connect from their ui. > I'm not using Network manager. How do I enable PAN from the command line? I'm an end-user right now. >DUN is a bit more complicated, it rely on Serial.Connect("dun") which >creates a RFCOMM port to talk to the modem, but there need to be some >process that has an AT command engine to handle all the configuration, >in NetworkManager case there is ModemManager that is supposed to do >that but I have tried not long ago and it failed for me, I think we >might want to have ofono to handle this in connman case What is ofono? >but so far >there the support for this is not complete (Gustavo Padovan has been >working on it). > >Both Network and Serial interface are documented in doc/ diretory, >there is also test-network and test-serial under test/ that can be >used to manually connect to those profiles. > Thank you. --