I was trying to figure out how to share my PC internet to a mobile device via bluetooth when I found how it's done with Blueman. I guess Setup a NAP (in my Russian ui I see it like: Настроить сеть NAP..) button does exactly the same in KDE/bluedevil but unfortunaely when I click it nothings happens (not even in logs). I guess bluedevil silently drops my attempts because of some problems and it's hard to say which ones. Also my paired Android device (where I want to reach the internet via bluetooth) doesn't habe "Use for internet" checkbox on the bluetooth connection to my pc. Some other connections have the option (for exmaple between two my android phones) It's on Gentoo system net-wireless/bluez compiled with next USE flag: cups, experimental, mesh, obex, readline, systemd, udev, user-session In NM applet settings has some auto-created NAP network, but I can't do anything with it. It's jus marked as never used.
Where do you see this option? Can you attach a screenshot?
Created attachment 141131 [details] screenshot of bluetooth connection settings
Huh, I've never seen that button before. Maybe my phone doesn't support it.
Confirmed. Starting `/usr/bin/systemsettings kcm_bluetooth` also does not show any output when clicking that button. nothing my bluetoothd logs either ``` Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_453 Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_453 Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_512 Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_512 Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc_xq_552 Mar 16 16:10:36 elite bluetoothd[669]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.55 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc_xq_552 Mar 16 16:10:37 elite bluetoothd[669]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03) Mar 16 16:13:28 elite bluetoothd[669]: /org/bluez/hci0/dev_0C_C4_13_27_43_74/sep1/fd0: fd(39) ready ``` (button was clicked on 16:30... timestamp. nothing on any logs) Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.2.6-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U with Radeon Graphics Memory: 30.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP EliteBook 845 14 inch G9 Notebook PC
workaround: 1. setup the bluetooth connection using this dialog. 2. ignore the network button 3. click the netmanager notification icon 4. click "connect" next to the newly available bluetooth device item. networkmanager notification icon turns into a connected bluetooth icon (kinda confusing as now you have two bluetooth connected icons there), and a NAP device shows up for me on `ip` command outout: `enp3s0f3u3`
> networkmanager notification icon meant, "network connections" widget. I guess it can also be setup via Settings > connection