Hi Paul, > Sorry for the delay in responding. I had prepared the latest version of > this package which would close the two other bugs, but never managed to > find a sponsor on mentors.debian.org for upload. My original sponsor has > gone off the radar.
Is there anything we can do to help at this level? > I no longer have an iPhone to test on, but think it is worth mentioning > that the ipheth-pair utility is somewhat obsolete in a desktop > environment. Perhaps, but it turns out that not everybody has a desktop environment. I, personnally, am using my computer only inconsole mode (I'm blind). So this utility is very important tome and I'mwilling to do the tests i someone can help with fixing the repored bug. > I know that it gets called by udev, and this is mainly to satisfy a > non-desktop installation - say minimal + ipheth-utils. In a desktop > environment, Nautilus / GVFS will also perform pairing on first > connection. Is there more precise information available on this? Is it possibleto run one of these two insteadofipheth-pair if this program can't bemade to work? > Thereafter, it is no longer needed. Well if I can find another solution to perform the pairing I don't mind changing tools, but I'd realy appreciate having a way to share my phone's connection. > There were issues in the past with the > pairing failing if your phone has a screen lock code, but I am not sure if > this is still the case. My phone has no such code and the pairing does stillnot work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Has the bug been reported upstream? Cheers, Shérab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
