{"id":157,"date":"2009-12-21T15:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/eocanha\/?p=157"},"modified":"2015-11-08T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T23:20:55","slug":"connecting-a-laptop-to-the-internet-with-yoigo-trough-n900-using-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/connecting-a-laptop-to-the-internet-with-yoigo-trough-n900-using-bluetooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting a laptop to the internet with Yoigo trough N900 using bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some simple steps to do tethering over bluetooth to connect to Yoigo Spanish carrier:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<lI>Enable the Maemo Extras-devel catalog (URL: http:\/\/repository.maemo.org\/extras-devel, Distribution: fremantle, Components: free non-free) and install &#8220;Bluetooth Dial-up Networking&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In your computer, edit <code>\/etc\/bluetooth\/rfcomm.conf<\/code> to look like this, but using your own bluetooth device address (use <code>hcitool scan<\/code> from your laptop to get it):\n<pre>\nrfcomm1 {\n        # Automatically bind the device at startup\n        bind yes;                                 \n\n        # Bluetooth address of the device\n        device 00:11:22:33:44:55         \n\n        # RFCOMM channel for the connection\n        channel 2;                         \n\n        # Description of the connection\n        comment \"N900\";\n}\n<\/pre>\n<p>Channels 1 and 3 are also available and can be defined as <code>rfcomm0<\/code> and <code>rfcomm2<\/code>, but the scope of that is out of this post.<\/li>\n<li>Now edit the file <code>\/home\/youruser\/.wvdialrc<\/code> in your laptop (using your own username) to look like this:\n<pre>\n[Dialer YoigoBT]\ninit1 = AT+CGDCONT=1,\"IP\",\"internet\"\nUsername = ''\nPassword = ''\nModem = \/dev\/rfcomm1\nPhone = *99#\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To connect to the internet, simply open a terminal and type:<\/p>\n<pre>\nsudo wvdial YoigoBT\n<\/pre>\n<p>To disconnect, just press CTRL+c and it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go2linux.org\/how-to-connect-internet-3g-gprs-using-bluetooth-usb-nokia-E71-cellular\">this post<\/a>, which was used as a reference on how to connect using Nokia devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some simple steps to do tethering over bluetooth to connect to Yoigo Spanish carrier: Enable the Maemo Extras-devel catalog (URL: http:\/\/repository.maemo.org\/extras-devel, Distribution: fremantle, Components: free non-free) and install &#8220;Bluetooth Dial-up Networking&#8221;. In your computer, edit \/etc\/bluetooth\/rfcomm.conf to look like this, but using your own bluetooth device address (use hcitool scan from your laptop to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/connecting-a-laptop-to-the-internet-with-yoigo-trough-n900-using-bluetooth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connecting a laptop to the internet with Yoigo trough N900 using bluetooth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}