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BT PAN - we need iptables and BT hackers - biketool - 11-12-2025
While a wifi hotspot is useful in a situation where you can plug-in your phone and get fast internet for your computer or laptop Bluetooth PAN is so far the best solution(except usb cable link which ideally will also be packaged for) for mobile users trying to conserve battery power.
This really should be a core optional or bundled packages for not just Mobian but all phosh and plasma builds.
We have a working 100% Debian linux based(Maemo 5) solution here for a system current around 2009 pre-systemd.
https://bugs.maemo.org/Bluetooth_PAN (getting dead link)
https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58570
What is required is to install the PAN bluetooth wireless base station bluez service and then create iptables routing and automated DHCP service like we already have in the WiFi service.
here is how it is done with openwrt user firmware routers.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/hardware/bluetooth/bluetooth.6lowpan
https://www.multitech.net/developer/software/mlinux/using-mlinux/bluez-5-pan-setup/
I have gotten the bluetooth PAN service to work once about four years ago on a PP running then current mobian though I had to in the end tunnel using SSH(works like a duct-tape fast socks VPN) to the phone from the client laptop as I had not configured the iptables routing correctly(ssh -D user@pinephoneIPaddress).
Since then I have not been able to replicate the bluez setup of the PAN BT service which is the base component toconnect to everything else.
RE: BT PAN - we need iptables and BT hackers - biketool - 03-25-2026
Sadly my PPp system board was not going into sleep, bought a replacement system board and the new modem included would never turn on, no help form Pine64 no warranty.
anyways I have a Purism Librem and I solved the BT pan configuration in Pureos crimson which should work for Mobian as well.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/bluetooth-pan-network-tethering/30211/3
Be sure your bluetooth is on and available
sudo modprobe bnep
echo "bnep" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/bnep.conf
sudo hciconfig hci0 up
bluetoothctl
(in the interactive typr)
power on
(if all is well type)
exit
sudo sdptool add NAP
sudo nmcli connection add type bluetooth con-name "PAN-Share" ifname bnep0 bluetooth.type nap ipv4.method shared
sudo nmcli connection up "PAN-Share"
sudo apt install iptables-persistent
sudo netfilter-persistent save
easy as that..... pair your laptop or tablet, this is far more