Tethering iPhone

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:11 PM, paul s <fedora-list at queuemail.com>
> wrote:
>         hi Patrick -
>         
>         I had success tethering the iPhone using
>         blueman-1.21-2.fc12... I use
>         wicd for my network connections so i switched to the ethernet
>         once
>         connected...
>         
>         I never tested it with networkmanager and nm-applet but the
>         bluetooth
>         connection should become available once you are tethered...
> 
> 
> The thing is, I want to do this precisely because my DSL connection is
> down, so I can' t run yum from my Fedora machines (oh the humanity!).
> I did dl the blueman rpm to the iMac and copy it over, but of course
> it wants a couple of others as dependencies, which want others etc
> etc. You get the picture. I guess I'll hope the DSL comes back up and
> I can do this properly, ready for next time :-) Hmmm, it would be nice
> to be able to do some kind of web-based dependency resolution (e.g. I
> upload a list of my installed rpms, some remote service then tells me
> what to download to install foo). Nice project for someone with time
> on their hands.
> 
> 
> BTW the Release Notes for F12 claim that Bluetooth tethering works out
> of the box. I guess I must have the wrong box.

Further to the above, I tried again on a different machine with more of
the Gnome stuff installed, and lo and behold it (i.e. blueman) worked.
I'm now using it to send this.

Thanks again.

poc