pand deprecated in bluez-utils

StriderA · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Balad, Iraq

So, after researching for a good hour trying to figure out why I didn't have the pand command, I found out that it comes from bluez-utils and only if you use the old-daemons package. This says that it will install DEPRECATED daemons, which I guess pand has become.

So... since it's deprecated now, I would assume there is a better alternative. Anyone know of any?

Also, the how-to should either be updated with new info or stating that bluez-utils should be installed with the old-daemons USE flag.
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krushia · n00b Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 10

*bump*

I'm trying to figure out the same thing. I can't find any documentation that even begins to explain how to use BlueZ 3.x. I don't think using the old daemons is the right answer. Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Stolz · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: Up!

Same here.

With my old mobile (Nokia) I used to connect my laptop to Internet using the mobile GPRS line. I used bluetooth+rfcomm to connect to the DUN (Dialup Networking) Profile of my mobile.

Now I have a new mobile (HTC) and it has no DUN profile, but a Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) profile, so I need the pand command to connect to my mobile, but bluez-utils lacks it.

Any help would be appreciated.

binro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 742 Location: Bangkok

I am curious too... There is still a pand directory in the bluez-utils source tarball on the BlueZ site.
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binro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 742 Location: Bangkok

Ah ha! I set PAN to autostart=yes in /etc/bluetooth/network.service, recycled bluetooth and now I see in the syslog:

So now I need to know the syntax of /etc/bluetooth/network.conf and what goes in /etc/conf.d/net for pan. I assume you alias net.pan0 to net.lo in the usual way. Anybody got any further ideas?

HTH
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Stefan.qn · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

oh I was also looking for that for an hour. Is sdpd gone, too?
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I've found in that post (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-599945) something like:
# Start sdpd (allowed values are "true" and "false")
SDPD_ENABLE=true
but if I put it in my conf.d/bluetooth and restart it still looks like this:
* Starting Bluetooth ...
* Starting hcid ... [ ok ]
* Starting rfcomm ... [ ok ]

ph03 · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 39

Rikz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 103

Almost the same here:

binro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 742 Location: Bangkok

I think so. I persevered but cannot remember exactly what I did now.

I created the net.pan0 alias and configured my phone and got a TCP/IP connection, accompanied by a huge number of error messages. I think at that point the routing needed to be set up and I lost interest (my phone connects perfectly well over WiFi). Sorry not to be of more help.
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lysergicacid · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:24 am Post subject:

any updates on this please ?
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Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

I switched to Ubuntu and there blueman ( http://blueman-project.org ) provides seamless nap integration. I never got blueman working with nap on gentoo though.

lysergicacid · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject:

thanks i'll take a look, u never know things might actually work since u last tried in gentoo, was it in portage and masked then ?