BT LAN connection with Symbian phones

Dmitry Dyomin bt at old.com.ua
Tue Dec 13 11:11:06 PST 2005


On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> i'm going to assume that you would like to make your freebsd machine act as a 
> server, i.e. bluetooth access point. if this is the case then you have to run 
> rfcomm_pppd(8) in _server_ mode, i.e. you need to add '-s' (lower case s) to 
> the rfcomm_pppd(8) command like. the '-S' (upper case s) makes rfcomm_pppd(8) 
> to register SP (Serial Port) service in _server_ mode.

Oh, I thought it's the same as -s, just opens additional service.
>
> i'm also going to assume that you are using gnubox application on your p900 
> phone to dial out. you need to use 2box direct mode. keep in mind that 
> rfcomm_pppd(8) in server mode will not dial out. it will wait for the client 
> to dial in. in other words you have to initiate connection from your phone.

Oops, I was not even aware of gnubox :) And tried to somehow initiate connection
from FreeBSD box before :)
Just installed it and finally connected to my FreeBSD.
Thank you very much!


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