Comments on: Sharing internet with Nokia 770 over bluetooth

By: RealNitro

RealNitro — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:58:03 +0000

Texrat, this howto was written for os 2005. I haven’t tested it with os 2006. I’ll probably update this howto when I get around to trying it myself on os 2006.

By: Texrat

Texrat — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:13:58 +0000

Just found your site tonight. Nice work, although I couldn’t get it to work. I added the application catalog url shown but application manager said it couldn’t find any packages there. So I tried the manual method– ncurses lib installed just fine but the others claim to be incompatible. I have the 2006 os and selected the appropriate packages.

Just letting you know. Man, I sure had high hopes!

By: RealNitro

RealNitro — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:58:54 +0000

A working iptables script (works on gentoo):
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#!/bin/bash
IPTABLES='/sbin/iptables'

# Set interface values
EXTIF='eth0'
INTIF1='bnep0'

# enable ip forwarding in the kernel
/bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

# flush rules and delete chains
$IPTABLES -F
$IPTABLES -X

# enable masquerading to allow LAN internet access
$IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTIF -j MASQUERADE

# forward LAN traffic from $INTIF1 to Internet interface $EXTIF
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INTIF1 -o $EXTIF -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

By: thedarksavant

thedarksavant — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:12:23 +0000

If you are getting SIOCSIFADR/FNETMASK/FBRDADDR errors when trying to add the bnep0 network device, then chances are you did not run the



pand --listen --role NAP

as root.

By: RealNitro

RealNitro — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:23:49 +0000

I didn’t install that firmware yet. You could search for the bnep0 device by executing ‘ifconfig’ without any arguments. That will display information about all active network devices, including bnep0 (or something similar).

By: Declan McArdle

Declan McArdle — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:28:38 +0000

Hi, does this work on firmware 2005/51 and upwards? Device bnep0 doesn’t seem to exist - I get SIOCSIFADR/FNETMASK/FBRDADDR errors with the ifconfig command.

By: Internet Tablet Users Blog

Internet Tablet Users Blog — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:50:07 +0000

Optimal web surfing on the Nokia 770
OK, we’ve all been surfing the web for years (more than a decade for some). So what’s there to learn about surfing using the Nokia 770? Lots.

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By: Roger Sperberg

Roger Sperberg — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:26:11 +0000

I’m patient.

(After all, I waited all this time for the 770.)

Anyway, I don’t have a USB Bluetooth adapter now, just looking into it. Maybe my finances will have recovered by February.

By: RealNitro

RealNitro — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:26:51 +0000

I don’t think it can be done without being root. (If you do not want to log in as root just to start the connection, try writing a little script and switch the superuser bit on with ‘chmod +s script.sh’. I do have some scripts, but they’re just the commands I posted here, put inside a little text file. If I’d have the time, I’d write some more advanced scripts, but I’m really, really busy atm. I’m planning to create a .desktop file that can be added to the menu some time, but don’t expect it before Christmas (probably not even before february — exams :-).

By: Roger Sperebrg

Roger Sperebrg — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:16:48 +0000

Um, this is great. Bit trickier than I'm inclined to handle, I'm afraid.

Have you got scripts written yet?

Is there any way to do this without being root?

Thanks,

Roger