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By basd on Sep 28, 2009 | In kde4, linux, tethered blackberry

Okay, so I wanted to reduce the number of steps to launch the Blackberry tethered connection and also reduce screen clutter.

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I came up with this:

kdesu rfcomm connect 0 & kdialog --title "Bluetooth to Blackberry" --yesno "rfcomm up?" 6 25 if [ $? = 0 ]; then echo $? kppp fi exit 0

The reason for the "yesno" dialog is to give rfcomm time to connect -- I found otherwise it's not quite ready when kppp starts. I could put a timeout counter in between, but it seemed easier to just have a manual dialog.

So, in this configuration I do not get any konsole feedback from the scripts, just dialog boxes. When I "disconnect" via kppp, rfcomm0 is also disconnected and I'm ready to start over again. (But, kppp must be exited before re-dialing, as rfcomm0 is no longer available.