Johan Hedberg wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007, at 0:11, Martin Grimme wrote: >> I have always used pand to connect to my smartphone via PAN or to >> build a bluetooth network between my Linux laptop and the internet >> tablets. >> Now in OS 2008, I cannot find pand anymore. Is it missing, or is it >> hidden somewhere? > > pand has been superseeded with the network service which comes > installed (though disabled by default) in OS2008. You can find some > documentation about it here: > http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/NetworkConnections > Unfortunately one drawnback with the network service is that it > doesn't (yet) have a as nice command line interface as pand. > Thanks fot this tip. I managed to create bnep0 interface by successively calling dbus-send in shell as mentioned in wiki page and parsing its output. There is one missing dbus-send example there - one has to call connection.Connect to the connection object created (called /org/bluez/network/connection4 in my case). One should also call FindConnection if one was already created, this is documented here https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/connectivity/bluez-utils/tags/bluez-utils-3.22-0osso1/network/network-api.txt I don't have full shell script for closing the connection, proper error recovery etc, but can confirm this really works and is possible to do directly from shell by calling dbus-send, see example below. Frantisek BTADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX SERVTYPE=gn IP=192.168.2.3 MASK=255.255.255.0 find_connection(){ #find or create connection if res=$(dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.bluez /org/bluez org.bluez.Manager.ActivateService string:network) ; then NET=$(echo $res | cut -d ' ' -f 7 | tr -d \" ) echo destination $NET if res=$(dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest="${NET}" /org/bluez/network org.bluez.network.Manager.FindConnection string:"${BTADDR}" ) ; then CONN=$(echo $res | cut -d ' ' -f 7 | tr -d \" ) else if res=$(dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest="${NET}" /org/bluez/network org.bluez.network.Manager.CreateConnection string:"${BTADDR}" string:"$SERVTYPE" ) ; then CONN=$(echo $res | cut -d ' ' -f 7 | tr -d \" ) fi fi fi } find_connection if [ "$CONN" != "" ] ; then echo connection $CONN if res=$(dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest="${NET}" ${CONN} org.bluez.network.Connection.Connect) ; then BNEPDEV=$(echo $res | cut -d ' ' -f 7 | tr -d \" ) echo connected to $BNEPDEV fi fi if [ "$BNEPDEV" != "" ] ; then ifconfig $BNEPDEV $IP netmask $MASK up fi
