Diane's World 18 Feb 2006 http://woldlab.caltech.edu/~diane/index.cgi I take the 5th en Dialout via bluetooth http://woldlab.caltech.edu/~diane/index.cgi/geek/p900-dialout-2006-02-18-17-12.html
sometime ago my laptop and phone were paired, but at some point I

deleted one of the connections, and when I tried dialing out the phone wanted a passphrase and kde thought there already was one.

I tried to delete /etc/bluetooth/link_key but that didn't work. Eventually I changed the pin-helper in hcid.conf from the kde one back to the bluez one.

I they started a connection and rand the pin-helper manually. One copy of the helper started up, and then magically another one popped up. I then filled a pin into both the second pin-helper and my phone and was able to make an outbound connection.

Of course then my ppp settings were wrong.

I commented out any fixed address, and the dns server information, and then used the /etc/chatscripts/provider which was setup to dialout to *99***2# (the second dialup profile on my phone)

System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 16); backlink

Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.

I also added

iface ppp0 inet ppp
provider p900-blue

to my /etc/network/interfaces but i don't think that was important in this case.

And now, once again I can connect to tmobile via my phone

I need to make sure i keep my phone better charged.

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