[Pc-connectivity-users] Usage on Ubuntu other than Intrepid

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:17:38 -0300
Hallyson Melo <hallyson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> great you managed to run everything on intrepid and karmic.
> 
> It seems dbus stack on Jaunty has some bugs. We experienced some problems
> when we were developing the applet, and we had to update the bluez packages
> at Jaunty, and them everything worked fine. Did you try this update already?
> 
> Did you install host-pc-connectivity package on Jaunty?
> 
> BR,
> Hallyson
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan Hudson
> <jh+maemo at daria.co.uk<jh%2Bmaemo at daria.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> 
> > Firstly, thanks for making this, much nicer than the bunch of scripts I
> > had previously.
> >
> > Second: Any clues for non-intrepid users (Bluez 4.x, the one that seems
> > to break all the previous APIs and has no documentation). Findings so
> > far appear to be:
> >
> > karmic: Works out of the box, just set up service in the bluetooth
> > applet and enjoy, very nice (modulo the alpha status of karmic).
> >
> > jaunty: The bluetooth stack is really sad; pand does not exist and
> > bluetoothd will not run /etc/bluetooth/network.conf defined scripts. My
> > best option seems to be to manually run a script that takes pan0 up and
> > down. Any clues on the correct way to handle this greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -jh

I am using the latest bluez on jaunty (4.32-0ubuntu4.1). I did not
install host-pc-connectivity, because it is written for the Intrepid
bluez version and does not support the jaunty version, which uses
bluetoothd rather than pand. In any case, I already have usb and
bluetooth networking devices in /etc/network/interfaces.

In addition, /etc/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules does not exist in
jaunty, (it's /lib/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules), so installing the
host-pc-connectivity package is at best futile, and possibly damaging
as it does not support the BT versions or infrastructure on jaunty.

karmic makes this all painless and "just works" (without
host-pc-connectivity). For me, the value of your package is on the
maemo side, where it greatly simplifies the setup.

-jh