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After countless nights and days of figuring out what’s going wrong with my Asus Eee PC, bluetooth dongle, and 3G phone, I have finally set it up successfully. Thanks to all the forums I’ve gone through. I know they all do not have complete and step by step configuration details but they are my only and primary source.

I’m gonna list all the issues I had to let you see if you also have gone through them.

1. Bluetooth functions well but cannot connect to phone (wrong passkey)
2. Asus Eee PC detects the phone but the phone cannot see the Asus Eee PC (pairing issue)
   Can't connect RFCOMM socket: Connection refused
3. Pairing was successful but wvdial says Modem not responding.
4. a lot more, can’t name them all, builds from one another.

Now here’s the simpiest steps on “how to install / configure bluetooth modem phone with Asus Eee PC”.

Requirements:

• bluetooth dongle
• bluetooth utility (i used bluez-utilz) here’s the steps i followed
• rfcomm, hcid, (i think these come with bluez-utils)
• wvdial
• root access
• i don’t think I forgot something here…

Ok, let’s start installing your bluetooth device and phone modem on your Asus Eee Pc.

1. Given that you have all the requirements above, connect your bluetooth dongle to your asus eee
2. Make sure it’s running. On your console, type: hciconfig
   My Results:
   hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 11:11:11:11:11:11 ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:1056115 acl:2996 sco:0 events:2802 errors:0
TX bytes:225742 acl:2361 sco:0 commands:236 errors:0
   In case your result says DOWN, start your bluetooth device by doing any of the following:
   hciconfig up (where dev is hci0 in my case)
/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
3. Turn on your phone’s bluetooth and scan using sdptool
   sdptool browse
   This command will display all the services available from your phone. Look for the service related to “Dial up Networking”
   My results:
   Service Name: Dial-Up Networking
Service RecHandle: 0x10002
Service Class ID List:
"Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 2
Language Base Attr List:
code_ISO639: 0×454e
encoding: 0×6a
base_offset: 0×100
Profile Descriptor List:
“Dialup Networking” (0×1103)
Version: 0×0100

   Take note of the channel for it’s very important.

4. Add an rfcomm device
   kwrite /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
   Paste the following:
   rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device ;
channel 2;
comment “Dial-up networking”;
}
5. Create a wvdial entry for your phone.
   My entry:
   [Dialer NBT]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0 #rfcomm entry
Username = yourusername
Password = yourpassword
Baud = 460800
Idle Seconds = 3000
Auto DNS = 1
Stupid Mode = 1
Compuserve = 0
Baud = 460800
Dial Command = ATD
Ask Password = 0
FlowControl = NOFLOW
6. Configure hcid.conf to automatically accept connection from your phone.
   My hcid.conf
   #
   # HCI daemon configuration file.
   #
   # HCId options
   options {
   # Automatically initialize new devices
   autoinit yes;

   # Security Manager mode
# none - Security manager disabled
# auto - Use local PIN for incoming connections
# user - Always ask user for a PIN
#
security auto;
# Pairing mode
# none - Pairing disabled
# multi - Allow pairing with already paired devices
# once - Pair once and deny successive attempts
pairing multi;
# Default PIN code for incoming connections
passkey “0000″;
}
# Default settings for HCI devices
device {
# Local device name
# %d - device id
# %h - host name
name “%h-%d”;
# Local device class
class 0×3e0100;
# Default packet type
#pkt_type DH1,DM1,HV1;
# Inquiry and Page scan
iscan enable; pscan enable;
# Default link mode
# none - no specific policy
# accept - always accept incoming connections
# master - become master on incoming connections,
# deny role switch on outgoing connections
lm accept, master;
discovto 0;
# Default link policy
# none - no specific policy
# rswitch - allow role switch
# hold - allow hold mode
# sniff - allow sniff mode
# park - allow park mode
lp rswitch,hold,sniff,park;
}

7. To make sure all config settings are applied, I advise to restart your bluetooth once more.
8. Start your your internet connection.
   wvdial In my case, NBT
9. Enjoy.

For any issues you might encounter, just leave a comment on this post and I will try my best to help you resolve it. Thanks for the visit.

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