[gnome-bluetooth] problems with connection to treo 650 from gnome-phone-manager

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 15:12 -0400, Wendell MacKenzie wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > <snip> 
> >> ** (gnome-phone-manager:27156): WARNING **: gn_gsm_initialise: Command
> >> failed
> >> ** Message: Failed connection to device on 00:07:E0:20:E1:E8
> >>     
> >
> > It looks like your computer can't connect to your phone, or gnokii
> > doesn't support it.
> >
> > Could you try running "./gnokii-identify 00:07:E0:20:E1:E8" in gnome-
> > phone-manager's sources, under libgsm?
> >   
> 
> wendell at macduff:~/garnome-2.16.0/geektoys/gnome-phone-manager/work/main.d/gnome-phone-manager-0.7/libgsm>
> 
> wendell at macduff:~/garnome-2.16.0/geektoys/gnome-phone-manager/work/main.d/gnome-phone-manager-0.7/libgsm>
> ./gnokii-identify 00:07:E0:20:E1:E8
> 
> ** (process:29980): WARNING **: gn_gsm_initialise: Command timed out.
> 
> ** (process:29980): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to the
> '00:07:E0:20:E1:E8' phone: No reason

I tested this quickly with a friend of mine's Treo:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356755

You need to enable "Dial-up networking" in the Bluetooth preferences.
If you get an output to:
sdptool search --bdaddr 00:07:E0:20:E1:E8 DUN
then you're in.

Cheers

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> 
I always thought deaf people were funny.                 -- Neil LaBute