Bluetooth Cell Phone Connection

[abelm]

I am new in linux, also shifted my attention from my girlfreind. I need you guys to help me in configuring my bluetooth cellphone to communicate with my PC. I can not do any thing that i could do while i was using windows XP. please help me.

[scrarfussi]

welcome which distro are you using what phone you got

[gen_rana99]

welcome which distro are you using what phone you got

Hi I am a very very very new user of Linux Mandriva. I have exactly the same problem here. I have a Sony Ericsson k790i cell phone and I used to use it as a edge modem to connect to the internet. I have the installation disk that contains the driver that makes my cell phone be recognised in Windows Xp but no driver for Linux.

I dont even think Sony Ericsson (i am not sure though) has created any driver for Linux so is there any way I can use my cell phone and connect to the internet from Linux Mandriva????

Thank You.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

How do you connect this phone to PC, via bluetooth or Cable?

[gen_rana99]

Hi.. Casper... I use the data cable i got with the phone. I tried using the blue tooth some time and that also works fine (in Windows Xp of course).

But setting up the bluetooth and using it with my phone was a little complicated. Dont actually want to do it again if I dont have to.

Thank You.

[kenethare]

well if you have the windows driver... one of the more experianced linux people might want to confirm this... you could use ndis wrapper and the windows driver i am unclear how this works because i have never needed it but someone else might be good at it