Thread: Palm Centro, and internet

blimey,
it's normally the other way around (using a bluetooth device as a modem for a laptop)
Never done it the other way around, but shouldn't be too different

The crunch will be whether the phone allows any kind of data transmissions over it's bluetooth connection
You may find, even though you can bridge your computer's bluetooth receiver and ethernet connection, that the phone won't allow net access over bluetooth
But you can only try

The first thing to do is install the bridge-utils package

Code:

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

This gives you the ability to bridge network connections

now,
I'm assuming your computer has a USB bluetooth dongle
(you may not)
but assuming you do,
your bluetooth connection is likely to be named "usb0" (similar to eth and wlan numbered connections)

You want to create what's called a bridged connection
This will be called "br0"
this bridge will route incoming comms from usb0 to outgoing comms on eth0 and vice-versa

So, you'll have:
eth0 - ethernet LAN connection (also provides net access)
usb0 - connection between phone and computer
br0 - bridged connection allowing phone to access LAN (and hence net access)

We'll need to know some stuff, not least the name of the connection used to communicate with the phone
So, before I do a step by step thingy,
can you post the output of these (with the phone connected to your machine)

Code:

ifconfig

Code:

cat /etc/network/interfaces

*edit*
Actually,
probably more importantly
How does the internet setup on the Centro work?

When setting up an internet connection, can you specify a bluetooth device?
If you can't, there's no point doing anything on the computer side