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As the N900 now has its own GSM/3G capability, Bluetooth DUN may have two different meanings for this device : | As the N900 now has its own GSM/3G capability, Bluetooth DUN may have two different meanings for this device : | ||
- | # if the N900 has net access itself, another Bluetooth-equipped device (such as a PC or laptop) may use it as a modem. In this case it plays the role of the mobile phone in the previous scenarios | + | # if the N900 is not equipped with a data SIM, it may use another GSM/3G phone as a modem to access the network. |
- | + | # if the N900 has net access itself, another Bluetooth-equipped device (such as a PC or laptop) may use it as a modem. In this case it plays the role of the mobile phone in the previous scenarios. | |
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- | This does not work out of the box (at least in early versions of Maemo5, as of December 2009). A tweak is needed to enable it, which has been described and packaged by [http://intr.overt.org/blog/?p=91 Philip Langdale] as “'' | + | This does not work out of the box (at least in early versions of Maemo5, as of December 2009). A tweak is needed to enable it, which has been described and packaged by [http://intr.overt.org/blog/?p=91 Philip Langdale] as “''Bluetooth Dial-up Networking''”. Installing this package from the Extras repository is all that's required. |
If the device that's being tethered runs Windows, there may be additional complications. Installing a recent version of Nokia PC Suite (with partial N900 support), and connecting it to the N900, may be necessary to create the relevant "Bluetooth Modem" in Network Connections; for others, simply pairing the N900 with the Windows Bluetooth stack is enough. | If the device that's being tethered runs Windows, there may be additional complications. Installing a recent version of Nokia PC Suite (with partial N900 support), and connecting it to the N900, may be necessary to create the relevant "Bluetooth Modem" in Network Connections; for others, simply pairing the N900 with the Windows Bluetooth stack is enough. | ||
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...where ''your_apn'' is the APN for your carrier that you can get from the network connections list in your N900 settings. | ...where ''your_apn'' is the APN for your carrier that you can get from the network connections list in your N900 settings. | ||
- | If the dial-up connection goes through most of the steps: find port, dial number, log in, but stalls at the very end (on "Registering your computer on the network"), setting the init string is probably the last missing part. Thanks to [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=436634&postcount=7 Kyle] for that one! | + | If the dial-up connection goes through most of the steps: find port, dial number, log in, but stalls at the very end (on "Registering your computer on the network"), setting the init string is probably the last missing part. Thanks to [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=436634&postcount=7 Kyle] for that one ! |
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