My attempts to use Nokia E51 as a 3G modem (part1)
Tonight I’m going to configure my Nokia E51 to use it as a 3G modem under ubuntu.
I found this tutorial which seems to be quite accurate:
http://outhereinthefield.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/nokia-e51-as-bluetooth-gsm-modem-on-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon/
unfortunately I failed in 1st step
he dongle is already used for sending and receiving file “Bluetooth File Sharing”, so I need to enable “Network Service” on my bluetooth connection by right-clicking the bluetooth icon on my taskbar, click on preferences, click on “Service” tab, and tick “Network Service”
I dind’t have any Bluetooth icon on my taskbar
uncle Google suggested reading this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=94713
I’ve installed every mentioned software and… failed again.
- right-click on the desktop and click Create Launcher
- in the Name field, type something like “Send file via bluetooth”.
- in the command field, type gnome-obex-send
the launcher say’s there’s no such command
Uncle Goo says:
http://lists.usefulinc.com/pipermail/gnome-bluetooth/2008-January/001348.html
so the commands in bluez had been reorganised… Informed tutorial’s author about it and continued doing the rest of the tutorial
- from now on, just drag and drop a file onto the shortcut to send it via bluetooth. You’ll then be able to choose your device in the dialog that comes up (assuming that your phone is set to be “visible” so it can be detected by other bluetooth devices)
succes! or not really – there are no devices available to send files to :/
author of the tutorial writes below
I’ve just realised that this HOWTO will only work with phones that don’t have to be paired before they can transfer files. My 6680 doesn’t need pairing to swap files but I think some, like the Sony model a friend of mine had, aren’t as easy going.
so I’ve decided to google one more time to see if I can pair my devices properly. The result? Another tutorial:
http://ubuntuliving.blogspot.com/2007/02/pairing-cellphone-with-ubuntu-via.html
This time I got as far as point 3!
Then, run hcitool scan. Sample output is:
Scanning …
00:17:B0:B4:52:C8 Nokia6233
my scaning returned:
cezary@cezary-laptop:~$ hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device
some searching for devices
cezary@cezary-laptop:~$ hcitool dev
Devices:
it seems Linux doesn’t see my bluetooth device!! It’s built in my Toshiba laptop.
What to do? Search!
http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/mirrors/bluez/toshiba.html
#let’s count… it’s fourth tutorial I’m using write now and I didn’t make any closer in the first one (still failure in step 1)
The new notebook’s from Toshiba have builtin Bluetooth. Toshiba uses a USB Bluetooth chip from Silicon Wave, but by default this USB device is not enabled (not plugged in). The control of this device can be done trough the toshiba driver which is included in the Linux kernel 2.4.x and an extra program which allows to enable this device. To activate this driver it should be compiled as a module and the following lines have to be added to the file (…)
So it is clear now! Gotta have it turned on.
After downloading a lot of stuff I’ve managed to run ‘dmabt’ tool which informed me:
DMABTenable v.0.01.1
====================BT Wireless Switch CHECK successful!
BT module powered on successful!
BT module attached successful!!!! Your Bluetooth DEVICE is ready to use !!!
I can go back to pairing devices.
cezary@cezary-laptop:/$ hcitool dev
Devices:
hci0 00:03:7A:0A:0F:15
cezary@cezary-laptop:/$ hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:15:B9:5B:F2:92 SGH-E530
00:1A:8A:0A:6D:8E SGH-E250
00:1D:6E:B7:E5:79 E51
YUPPI!
Just to make sure I’ve run the ’send via Bluetooth’ launcher – it’s detected bluetooth devices!! And sent text file properly laptop=>mobile
but not otherwise :/
when searching the air with my mobile – there’s no track of my computer there so I cannot pair them from the mobile. hmmmm the configfile doesn’t seem to have ‘visibility option’ I’ll see the other related web resource:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-November/098548.html
well it just wont let me enter a code to pair the phone, no matter how many
times i run sudo hcitool auth 00:0F:DE:BB:7E:F0
aha! This step wasn’t mentioned in the tutorial I used. Seems like authentication for phone. I’ll give it a try.
cezary@cezary-laptop:/$ hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:15:B9:5B:F2:92 SGH-E530
00:1A:8A:0A:6D:8E SGH-E250
00:1D:6E:B7:E5:79 E51
cezary@cezary-laptop:/$ sudo hcitool auth 00:1D:6E:B7:E5:79
Not connected.
bad attempt…
looking in other tuts
!! Since I’ve enabled the built-in Bluetooth device, the System=>Preferences=>Bluetooth has more options 
it’s so simple
This very-complicated-and-deeply-hidden GUI lets me set my bluetooth name and… add new paired device 
The only thing I have to do from phone is set authorization (so the connection will be established automatically).
but it still doesn’t want to push objects from mobile to laptop.
#restart of Bluetooth File Sharing app on computer helped. Transfer succeessful!
UUUUUUF! Bluetooth device turned on, all possible utilities installed, devices paired.
It’s time to go back to the first tutorial and try to establish modem connection using my mobile phone
http://outhereinthefield.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/nokia-e51-as-bluetooth-gsm-modem-on-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon/
I’ve rebooted for changes to take place and…. there is no bluetooth device again!
Dmabt can’t initiate it for me due to the conflict with acpi:
If ACPI is used the dmabt utility won’t work and a modified toshiba_acpi kernel module is needed. More details can be found here.
yeahhh so my options are:
1. remove acpi from computer (which I am not gonna play with – too dangerous… I don’t want to burn my pc)
2. install modified toshiba_acpi kernel module
let’s do it! But maybe I’ll do it tomorrow [it’s 3:00am and I wasn’t sleeping well last night). The rest in next note!
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