Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-02 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Hello, all! I have a N800 with OS2008, but I have no wireless network at home. My desktop computer has a wired internet connection, a bluetooth dongle, and GNU/Linux. I tried to follow many how-tos about sharing the internet connection with PAN/NAP or DUN, but no one could be followed to the lette

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-02 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 16:29 -0500, James Knott escreveu: > Considering how cheap WiFi gear is these days, why not buy an access > point? Most inexpensive WiFi routers can be configured in access point > mode, so that WiFi devices, such as the N800 appear on your local LAN. I'd like to get a solu

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-02 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 18:27 -0500, Ryan Abel escreveu: > > Or how about the up-to-date version https://wiki.maemo.org/ > Bluetooth_PAN ? > > Though I believe the dummy fixes are bundled with 36-5. > I'm sorry, what does "36-5" mean? I tried maemo-pan, but it displays a notification about look

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-02 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 19:23 -0500, Ryan Abel escreveu: > On Nov 2, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Leonardo F. Fontenelle wrote: > > I'm sorry, what does "36-5" mean? > > It's the week number and build number of the latest release. 4.2008.36-5 > Thank you &g

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-03 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Seg, 2008-11-03 às 10:57 +0100, Martin Grimme escreveu: > > In fact, computer support is still missing in maemo-pan. It's on the > TODO list, though. > Thanks for the reply! IMHO you software fixes a needless hole in Maemo. As soon as I can I'll follow José Luís' suggestion on how to set up

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-03 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 17:41 -0400, José Luís escreveu: > Hi, > > You can try this howto > http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto-bluetoothnetworking-dun-ppp/ > Thanks, it worked! Right now my N800 is connected to the Internet. The Bluetooth DUN connection is sufficient to use all of the 2Mbps de

Re: gmail contacts import

2008-11-04 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 12:15 +0100, Henrik Frisk escreveu: > > > > If I recall correctly, Conduit can handle Gmail contacts, and has a > > Maemo port: http://www.conduit-project.org > > > Interesting. It looks promising but I can't get it too install on my > N810 because I can't get (for some reason

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-04 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 07:41 +0100, Dave Neary escreveu: > Hi, > > José Luís wrote: > > You can try this howto > > http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto-bluetoothnetworking-dun-ppp/ > > Alternatively, please try (and help improve) the same article in the new > wiki - the old wiki will be definitiv

Re: gmail contacts import

2008-11-04 Thread Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 10:28 +0100, Henrik Frisk escreveu: > Hi all, > > Affter much frustration and unsuccessful attempts at importing my > Google contacts into my N810 contacts db I have decided to take a shot > at writing a utility to do it for me using the Google contacts API. I > may eventtual