can't connect to PAN NAP
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bluez (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: bluez
In Ubuntu 8.10 the bluez handling of personal area networks is undocumented and not working.
I have two boxes running 8.10 and bluez installed. There seems to exist no possibility to connect one to the other via a Bluetooth PAN connection.
On Ubuntu 8.04 this could be done via running pand on one side in role NAP (network access point) and connecting from the other side with "pand -c <btaddr>".
This does not work anymore even if package bluez-compat (containing pand) is installed.
With bluez-compat not installed I can bring up the interface pan0 on each side via ifconfig. Of course packages send via this interface get lost because there exists no connection between those two interfaces and I don't know how to bring up one.
How is this supposed to work now?
When scanning for the other side via "hcitool scan" it is found correctly. Even pairing via the Gnome Buetooth Applet works fine. Scanning SDP of the remote side works fine, too! PAN services are discovered successfully on each side:
Service Name: BlueZ NAP service
Service Description: BlueZ PAN service
Service RecHandle: 0x10006
Service Class ID List:
"Network Access Point" (0x1116)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
PSM: 15
"BNEP" (0x000f)
Version: 0x0100
SEQ16: 800 806
Language Base Attr List:
code_ISO639: 0x656e
encoding: 0x6a
base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
"Network Access Point" (0x1116)
Version: 0x0100
I am happy to provide further information.
description: | updated |
Changed in bluez (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Won't Fix → Invalid |
I can confirm this problem on my setup too.
This is a severe regression from hardy. The excellent functionality provided by pand et al was fairly simple to set up and use. And it worked. The new dbus configuration method obscures everything unless you know the dbus system and command line options. And it doesn't work.
The new system is a big step backwards in usability, and the "compat" package doesn't work, so the previous functionality is broken.
Please can we have a nice config file to set system defaults for NAP GN and PANU. I would like my system to boot up to providing a NAP service without my having to enable it manually.
A graphical interface in GNOME to do the same would be the icing on the cake.