At the moment, I use my phone's internet connection on my laptop by using a USB cable. How do I set things up to use internet using my phone without the USB cable. So, that I can get rid of the USB cable and use Bluetooth instead?
I am using an android phone and I want to use my phones 3g data to give my laptop an internet connection in remote locations where I don't have wifi access. Plus my laptop doesn't have wifi anyway, just bluetooth.
So basically, how do I configure ubuntu so it can use the internet made available for my phones bluetooth connection which passes through the 3g connection to my computer?
Best Answer
First of all, your phone needs to support Bluetooth tethering. Where to find this setting depends on your phone. If you happen to use Cyanogenmod, it would be under Settings > Wireless & Networks > More > Tethering & portable hotspot > Bluetooth tethering. On other Android flavors you would need to look around. If you don't have this setting, you might be able to get it to work by installing an app – Google Play has a few that claim to do the job, though I haven't tried any myself.
Having made sure your phone supports Bluetooth tethering, get Blueman (from the Ubuntu repositories). With that you can pair your phone and computer and then use it for Internet connection.