On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have installed OpenBSD 3.8 in a laptop with a winmodem so I can't connect to
> the internet with it but recently by chance I realised that OpenBSD3.8
> recognised the bluetooth adapter I had plugged in on the USB, a Belkin v1.2
> 10m range, during boot up time it highlited it and acknowledged the model.
>
> Since I also own a mobile phone with bluetooth I could use it as a modem, I
> know it works as I have already used it this way from Windows XP and although
> data is quite expensive text only mode works out fine. Now the problem I have
> with OpenBSD is this:
>
> I configured ppp.conf with the phone number I have to dial to connect to the
> internet which is *99# (yes an asterisk and a hash but that is the number, and
> it works with windows), then I configure the password and username I save the
> ppp.conf and:
>
> ------------------------------------
> #ppp myisp
> Working in interactive mode
> using interface: tun0
> #dial
> Warning:Chat script failed
> -----------------------------------
>
> Something is failing and I am quite new in Unix and OpenBSD I do not work in
> IT, so some help appreciated, my main doubts are:
>
> 1) I write ppp.conf based on the ppp.conf.sample I do not know if I need to
> delete everything that I am not using and it is not under the comment (#)
> mark, in my ppp.conf I only leave scripts containing the modem device and the
> part where my phone number is, I delete all the rest. Exemple: the original
> ppp.conf.sample is 10k, my ppp.conf is 2k as I have deleted everything is not
> used to avoid this interfering with the rest.
>
> 2)In the ppp.conf where it says modem device I leave the default dev/cua01 , I
> do not know if that is also the right one for a bluetooh device as I dont
> think it was intended for that.
>
> I havent got a clue about how to do any analysis,tcpdump or wherever if
> anybody in the list has managed to use OpenBSD in this way please let me know.
How can you see a bluetooth device? Bluetooth support is not in
GENERIC. Send in a dmesg; it'll probably show that device is
recognized as ugenN, which basically says it's not gonna work.
-Otto
