Bluetooth PAN using connman

[baybal]

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Hello,

Connman has a network manager emulation layer. Can we add support for it for PAN connections, or use connman's native API?

Connman picks up PAN connections just fine, but you need to open a PAN connection first.

[infirit]

We don't use networkmanager for this but if someone want to add this they can. marking as feature request.

[infirit]

PAN, NAP... I always get them confused, I blame bluetooth for their horrible naming conventions :smiling_imp:. So yes, there is a plugin for networkmanager and it uses the gi bindings to communicate with NM.

I hate working with connman so if someone else wants to work on this have fun :smiley:

[baybal]

there is a plugin for networkmanager and it uses the gi bindings to communicate with NM.

Can you check if connman's compatibility layer for NM supports same dbus calls?

[infirit]

I could not find anything like nm compat layer. Also I would prefer it to be its own plugin for blueman applet and use connman's own dbus API.

[baybal]

@infirit it seems it was removed many versions ago

• Remove NM compatibility mode from default init-script options (no longer available upstream); remove connman.default accordingly

[baybal]

So yeah, no way around using its own API now