Internet sharing from cell phone, usb/bt problem

[LyhjeHylje]

Hello, I just upgraded my other pc from 9.4 to 9.10 and the internet connection stopped working.

I was sharing connection from my nokia e63 through usb, in 9.10 the networkmanager does show the phone icon but doesn't connect. Nothing happens when I click the phone icon in networkmanager connections list.
I have set all the same settings as before, although networkmanager in 9.10 does not have all the settings it has in 9.4, maybe I should edit some settings file directly?

I also tried bluetooth but the wizard says my phone is not input device (!?)

I have already read that the gnome networkmanager might work better but how do I install it without net?

Thank you in advance if someone can help.

[dre12b]

Re: Internet sharing from cell phone, usb/bt problem

I'm having the same problem with the Nokia 6650 fold (s60 device). i see it in the network applet, but when I click on it to connect, nothing happens. i also posted here (can't figure out how to link to it), but haven't gotten a response. Googling revealed this may be some kind of kernel problem common for Ubuntu 9.04 -> 9.10 upgrade.

Ran dmesg (I think) and it reported a cdc usb error. I think this means it's a model driver issue, rather than a problem with the connection configuration.

I installed linux mint kde (it's still an rc) and the USB tether works out of box. Though bluetooth connection was still failing.

[LyhjeHylje]

Re: Internet sharing from cell phone, usb/bt problem

My computer is usable now, I read from somewhere that gnome networkmanager is started with nm-applet command, luckily that worked for me although I must start it everytime by hand.

[dre12b]

Re: Internet sharing from cell phone, usb/bt problem

I haven't done it myself, but I believe KDE's "Autostart" tool will allow you to configure the applet to launch at startup.

After reading around some more I came to the same conclusion - the gnome frontend for network manager has a wizard for mobile broadband and with a USB connected phone (Nokia 6650 fold in my case) will work out of the box. Whatever comes installed in Kubuntu (plasma widget? KDE frontend?) seems to recognize the phone, but does not include a wizard and does not work.

Are you running 32 or 64-bit? I read somewhere that there is a kernel problem with 64-bit 9.10 that can impact mobile broadband. I had problems on a 64-bit Kubuntu install and only "fixed" the situation by using Linux Mint 8 KDE (Ubuntu-based), which is 32-bit. So I'm not 100% sure what the problem was.

[dre12b]

Re: Internet sharing from cell phone, usb/bt problem

So replacing the kde front-end with the gnome front-end for network manager also fixes the problem with mobile broadband support on Kubuntu 64-bit.

I'm not sure whether this fix works because the gnome front-end includes a mobile broadband wizard that configures all settings appropriately or if it's an underlying problem with drivers for the mobile phones.

Now if we could only get the bluetooth modem to work!