Finally I bought a Bluetooth adapter to manage my Nokia 6600 mobile phone. It’s marketed as a “Hamlet Bluetooth USB Adapter”, but it really is a “Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle” according to lsusb. It works fine on Debian GNU/Linux using kernel 2.6.17, the BlueZ stack and kdebluetooth, but I had to update bluez-utils and bluez-libs to version 3.4 otherwise the phone wouldn’t see the PC…
Here’s a very nice add-on called GnuBox for your Symbian phone: it allows you to browse the Internet on your phone through your PC’s connection when you’re at home.
To make GnuBox work, you’ll have to follow the instructions on the GnuBox page, then set up a few things on your Linux box:
- turn off kbtserialchat in the kdebluetooth configuration (or quit kdebluetooth altogether)
- create the following file as /etc/ppp/peers/dun:
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192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2
ms-dns
192.168.0.1
lock
crtscts
noauth(where 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 are the IP addresses of your computer and your phone, 192.168.0.1 is the address of your DNS server)
- add the following lines to /etc/default/bluetooth:
DUND_ENABLED=1
DUND_OPTIONS=”–listen –channel 3 –encrypt call dun”