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.
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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