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usb bluetooth dongle and sad to say a laptop with winxp on for university, usb dongle is the more expensive type with up to 150m range as a cheap 10m range worked but would not do voice and sound on a linux box. Hope this helps On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 19:14 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2005 4:09 pm, Darren Ward wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:40 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Anyone know how to share a LAN connection over bluetooth? > > > > > > :-) > > > > try http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN > > > > have this working on gentoo 64 and suse > > Thanks, but which devices do you use? > > I'll look at that later - for now I'm happy to have TCP/IP via USB. I still > don't trust wireless connections! > > It still needs to have quite a bit of setup on the PC, it's not something I > could expect enabled elsewhere unless I took my own laptop at which point I > might as well connect via the laptop. > > TCP/IP does seem easier for a portable device - Familiar supports DHCP and > even using the preferred static IP, it's not hard to change the network > details to fit in with an existing network - providing the network already > has provision for masquerading and a usable subnet. Persuading someone to > change some network settings is easier than asking them to setup one machine > as a bluetooth host. > -- Darren Ward <tecknow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html