Comments on: Ubuntu, iPhone OS 3 and vodafone NL tethering

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:27:03 +0000

I could get a stable connection between the iPhone and my laptop by switching off bluetooth on the iPhone, switching it on again and then connecting from the iPhone to the laptop.

If I connect with blueman to the iPhone then it always works

By: Payk

Payk — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:35:30 +0000

I was getting one step further… try to update the bluet package to 4.49 (if i remember correct). if you know connect iphone to pc, and on pc side connect make a network connection, you can see a blue bar on iphone which tells you that it is in teethering mode. before that bluez update, it didn’t not worked for me.
anyway, even with this bar, i cannot open any webpage, nor ping google or anything.
the networkmanager doesn’t seem to know that it can use the connection …
i have heared that in ubuntu keramic alpha/beta blueman project will be standard bluetooth manager, and that teethering works straight and easy…but i dont want to wait, or upgrade to a beta (no virtualbox then). so if anyone can get it working, please tell me!
greetings, payk

By: Gerben

Gerben — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:29:03 +0000

Now the connection is a succes, Blueman says. But how do I get my networkmanager to use the Bluetooth-iphone connection to connect to the Internet?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:56:03 +0000

Indeed, setting up the bluetooth connection between the iPhone and Ubuntu doesn’t appear to be very stable. When I initiate the connection from the iPhone it seems to work 90% of the time, from Ubuntu it hardly ever works.

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By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:07:28 +0000

Martin Notes , Ubuntu, iPhone OS 3 and vodafone NL tethering…

In this article (in Dutch) it is described how to configure the iPhone to use the Vodafone network for tethering. I have a Vodafone business account, so I used the link that’s at the end of the article: http://helvensteijn.com/files/vodafone-tether/...

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:04:37 +0000

It works. One has to be patient… and establish the connection on the iphone (it’s not enough to pair them, on the iPhone’s bluetooth settings you have to touch the PC name to establish the connection). You will be then prompted with a message in your computer asking for permission to establish the connection with the iphone. After saying yes, you can connect to the internet thru the iphone’s 3G by clicking on the blueman application to select the network access point.
David

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:03:36 +0000

@Gerben

Hi, I have the same problem than Gerben. Blueman is able to pair the iphone, but it fails to connect the network. I am in Spain (using telefonica), and using ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks
David

By: Gerben

Gerben — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:15:03 +0000

Hi,

I tried using your tutorial but like always, it fails in the last step;)

When i try to connect the iphone as a network acces point it get the meesage: failed.

Any ideas?

By: Ubuntu, iPhone OS 3 and vodafone NL tethering | Real Rumors

Ubuntu, iPhone OS 3 and vodafone NL tethering | Real Rumors — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:00:11 +0000

[...] Ubuntu, iPhone OS 3 and vodafone NL tethering 28.06.2009 | Posted in Computer World In iPhone OS 3 Apple decided to make it possible to use the iPhone as a modem for your computer. But they also decided to make that only possible for certain networks. However they apparently didn’t want to make it too complicated for you to ‘hack’ this. To get it working with my Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope I had to do the following: Install an iPhone config file tethervodafonenlzakelijk Install “Blueman”, http://blueman-project.org/ iPhone configuration In this article (in See the original post: Ubuntu, iPhone OS 3 and vodafone NL tethering [...]