> > Sounds like it just managed to get harder. It is, but perhaps not as a matter of principle. Seems that development is focused entirely on bluetooth subsystem, leaving user side tools and user level documentation far behind.
bluez-4.x has very primitive (and nowhere, except comments explained) config files. Most of the management (like enabling/disabling services, pairing) is done at runtime through d-bus commands. Since I did not find any command line tools that do that, one has to rely on gnome-bluez or blueman (both of which comes with some gnome dependancies, unfortunately). In online docs you can get some hints and tips, but there is no coherent description what to do, at least as far as bluetooth networking is concerned. I used the following links http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/noko/index.php?title=Gentoo_bluetooth_network_gateway_with_bluez-utils_3.* (but dbus-send command is incorrect for bluez-4.x) Correct dbus command I got from http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_Bluetooth#Information_about_bluez4_networking and it is something like dbus-send --system --dest=org.bluez --print-reply /org/bluez/`pidof bluetoothd`/hci0 org.bluez.Adapter.GetProperties (here ~amd64 d-feet utility is invaluable to find what d-bus interfaces and methods you driver exposes). http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN (old, there is no pand daemon anymore, but finally explained to me when I am supposed to see bnep0 devices, and what's there relation to pan0 device) > > So I should be installing bluez instead of > net-wireless/bluez-libs net-wireless/bluez-utils as the documentation > states? I did go with ~amd64 bluez-4.39 (since I had no previous setup anyway) and spend last week on/off trying to configure networking with mobile phone. Not yet there, but apporaching ... (actually I got stuck yesterday trying to pair two computers - not that I need it, but as a matter of principle, phone got paired all right). BTW, bluez-4.39 has 'old-daemons' USE flag, which perhaps will give you sdpd and pand to mimick old behaviour, but I have not tried that. Good luck, and keep us posted on progress ! -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 11322 - 89 Avenue fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7, CANADA
