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    Bluetooth Netqwork Access Point

    As I'm spending a couple of weeks in a place with rather backward WIFI policies I could not get my various devices simultaneous on-line.
    They hand out a WIFI log-in code and the MAC address of the first device is the only one allowed to return.

    It's easy enough to spoof a MAC address in the Network Manager of KDE but impossible on my various phones and tablet.
    So I wanted to assign the Kubuntu laptop as Bluetooth access point/ hotspot.

    To my surprise such is not included in the network manager and Google came up with a bunch of non-trivial solutions via the CLI.
    But luckily in the Repo's is a utility called Blueman that does the trick, my laptop with Kubuntu 13.04 is now a Bluetooth hotspot.

    http://blog.larsstrand.no/2009/04/sh...tion-over.html

    Initially it would not work but a reboot brought relief.

    The above screen shot is a bit dated or Gnome specific and I had to use the "dnsmask" and "Integrate with network manager" options.

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    #2
    Talk about timing...I need something just like this. Thanks!

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      #3
      Hm. I'm not finding a Local Services option anywhere inside Blueman. Where do you see it?

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        #4
        You get a nice new bright Blue icon in the System tray, right click it and it shows up.

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          #5
          Derp, didn't even see that!

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