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Spent a bit of time to configure my Nokia mobile to teethering wih my Linux and T-Mobile. Here is some steps that may help the others : If you don’t have that blue bluetooth led switched on on your Dell Latitude D630 Laptop you have to enable it. I haven’t find any way to do that via the Linux Kernel module but with Windows under Vmware Player (3.0) enabling Bluetooth and installing the driver (manually not via the setup.exe) enabled bluetooth. Switched on bluetooth on the Phone and attached to the laptop via gnome bluetooth applet thingy. Get my phone device number from hcitool scan. And did this (as root) : cat </etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf # RFCOMM configuration file. rfcomm0 { # Automatically bind the device at startup bind yes; # Bluetooth address of the device device YOUR:PHONE:DEVICE:NUMBER; # RFCOMM channel for the connection channel 4; # Description of the connection comment “Nokia N95”; } EOF /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart cat </etc/ppp/chat-tmobile ABORT BUSY ABORT ‘NO CARRIER’ ABORT ‘NO ANSWER’ ABORT ERROR REPORT CONNECT SAY ‘Calling t-mobile…\n’ "" ‘ATZ’ OK ‘ATE0V1&D2&C1S0=0+IFC=2,2’ SAY ‘Modem reset.\n’ SAY ‘Setting APN…’ OK ‘AT+cgdcont=1,“IP”,“general.t-mobile.uk”’ SAY ‘APN set\n’ SAY ‘Dialling…\n’ OK ‘ATDT*99#’ TIMEOUT 30 CONNECT "" EOF cat </etc/ppp/peers/t-mobile /dev/rfcomm0 460800 idle 7200 modem noauth lock crtscts defaultroute user “user” password “pass” noipdefault usepeerdns updetach noccp nobsdcomp #novj ipcp-restart 10 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote lcp-echo-interval 65535 lcp-echo-failure 10 lcp-max-configure 10 connect “/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-tmobile” EOF ...

So if you have network-manager not detecting wireless networks it is probably because lately the driver need to be set as up to get the thing going. On my Debian I have added this to make it works : echo "/sbin/ip link set wlan0 up"|sudo tee /etc/default/NetworkManager

So if you get that shiny new Dell desktop and ACPI spit bunch of message at the install time and the network driver does not get detected you can follow these steps to have it working. Continue the install without the network until you reboot to grub. Add hpet=disable at the end of the boot kernel parameter and get into the system. Download the latest kernel for your architecture on : ...