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Re: [LUG] GNU/Linux on iPAQ

 

On Sunday 13 November 2005 4:09 pm, Darren Ward wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:40 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Anyone know how to share a LAN connection over bluetooth?
> >
> > :-)
>
> try http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN
>
> have this working on gentoo 64 and suse

Thanks, but which devices do you use?

I'll look at that later - for now I'm happy to have TCP/IP via USB. I still 
don't trust wireless connections!

It still needs to have quite a bit of setup on the PC, it's not something I 
could expect enabled elsewhere unless I took my own laptop at which point I 
might as well connect via the laptop.

TCP/IP does seem easier for a portable device - Familiar supports DHCP and 
even using the preferred static IP, it's not hard to change the network 
details to fit in with an existing network - providing the network already 
has provision for masquerading and a usable subnet. Persuading someone to 
change some network settings is easier than asking them to setup one machine 
as a bluetooth host.

-- 

Neil Williams
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