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bjquinn2
27-12-2007, 01:30 AM
Hi, I've got a bluetooth adapter for my laptop. I've tried setting up my Treo 750 that I recently upgraded to Windows Mobile 6 to tether to my laptop for internet access. Looks like Bluetooth DUN is disabled in AT&T's WM6 rom. So I figured the PAN route seems better anyway since I think it doesn't drop the connection when a call comes in (although it takes more steps to initiate it every time, kind of a pain...). So it looked pretty easy to set up. I paired the devices, set up Internet Sharing on the Treo, and set my laptop to connect to my phone through PAN and all seems to connect fine, but I can't ever actually get on the internet. The phone shows connected, the laptop shows connected. The phone offers three options for internet sharing - AT&T, ICS, and proxy. AT&T or proxy both seem to connect, ICS does not. I noticed on my laptop that my IP address for the bluetooth PAN is 0.0.0.0. I don't know if that matters or not for this type of connection. Also, I've tried this with both the MS bluetooth stack and Toshiba bluetooth stack with the same results. All seems to pair and connect perfectly, I just get no IP address, no DNS servers, and (because of that, I think) no internet connection.

bjquinn2
27-12-2007, 01:40 AM
Also, if I try to do an ipconfig /renew I get "An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection 3 : The RPC server is unavailable."

My Local area connection 3 shows as "Bluetooth Personal Area Network".

DHCP shows as enabled, but ip, subnet, and dhcp servers show up as 0.0.0.0.

bjquinn2
27-12-2007, 01:56 AM
And you know what else, come to think of it is that a couple of times it complained about there being an IP address conflict on the network. I can't guarantee that it's related... at the time my wireless LAN was on and working correctly.

bjquinn2
27-12-2007, 04:44 AM
Well, I'm sure nobody else is likely to have this same problem, but it so happens that my DHCP Client service wasn't running. I'd gotten some windows update that screwed up my laptop and was spitting out Generic Host Process Errors. If anyone cares, see here - http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/08/generic-host-process-for-win32.html