I was amazed seeing that using mobile phone as modem in Ubuntu 8.

10 is just like
learning abc. You just connect a modem using USB cable or Bluetooth and Ubuntu
will take care of the rest. The easy and step by step interface is so easy that
any novice can configure it too.
But I am mostly Redhat variant user. I use Fedora 9 for my laptop s OS beside Wind
ows XP. I did not find configuring Bluetooth in Fedora as easy as in Ubuntu. But
no worry, its not hard enough. I have found a good tutorial which helped me to
configure bluetooth to use internet. If you need help in fully Bangla, please vi
sit this page.
1. To skip writing sudo before each command, you better login as root.
2. Connect your Bluetooth Dongle (if you don t have built in bluetooth support)
and enable bluetooth on mobile phone.
3. Then we need to find out the MAC address of our mobile. So run the followi
ng command:
hcitool scan
4. This may return result something like:
00:22:FD:F3:8F:99 HungryCell
5. So we got the MAC address which is 00:22:FD:F3:8F:99. It will differ in yo
ur case.
6. Now we need to know the channel number for Dialup Internet Service in our
mobile. So run the following command:
sdptool search DUN | grep Channel
7. You will get something like Channel: 1. It may be channel 2 or any other n
umber too.
8. We got MAC and channel. Now we will configure our device. Run
# gedit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
9. Add the following contents inside the file. Replace the bold part accordin
g our retreived values.
rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device your-phone-mac-address;
channel your-phone-rfcomm-channel;
comment Bluetooth PPP Connection ;
}
10. According to our previous retrieved values, our settings should be like:
rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 00:22:FD:F3:8F:99;
channel 1;
comment Bluetooth PPP Connection ;
}
11. Save the file and exit.
12. Now we need to create Dialup Connection. Run:
gedit /etc/wvdial.conf
13. Put the following contents in the file and exit after saving the file:
[Dialer bluetooth]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0
Baud = 460800
SetVolume=0
Dail Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1, IP , APN
Phone = *99#
Username = xyz
Password = xyz
 14. You must replace the APN with appropriate Access Point Number of your ISP.
15. Now its time to dial. Run the following command:
wvdial bluetooth
16. If everything goes well, then it will connect you to internet :).
Any update, correction, modification and suggestion is appreciated.