I just switched from Ubuntu to freespire, as guided in the forum for its simplicity and easy installation.

Having installed, the first requirement of any distro of linux is Internet connection. I connect to Internet via Bluetooth on my gprs enabled phone. I have a internal smartlink modem installed on my via chipset.

Please guide me as to configure my computer to access Internet in the line described above. once I get connected, I am confident of getting rid of windows once for all.

I should let you know that I am a new bee, and does not understand easily the file formats and the procedures please bear with me! This configuration I need for Freespire 1.13 Ok.

Thanks.

As I checked below I found the make of my Bluetooth dongle is required, here it is, Fujitech 'Bluetooth Class 1 (100 metre range) The driver for windows is wids 4 something.

First up, you need to install bluez-libs and bluez-utils with the Freespire package manager. Once you've done that run these commands in a terminal and post the output, from there I'll post more instructions

I am really sorry sir, but do tell me where is the package manager in Freespire? I could see the cnr and some reference to apt but how do I install the files you mentioned above in linux? I am able to connect to Intenet right now through win-98 through, I will have to restart to go to linux.

I am a totally new bee sir, that is why I swtched from ubuntu which I could not make out. But I new about package manager in ubuntu!

Please keep your cool and let me know!
Thanking you,
Ashfaq.

Oh, well. I don't know a ching about package management in Linspire and don't even want to. I know there're CNR channels and they're released free soon.
Afrer all you can always compile the bluetooth utils from source, but there're kernel level drivers, which you have to include in kernel config if not done for you by linspire devs.

Anyway. I've set up my laptop to use my SE T630 as a gprs/csd modem. It wasn't too hard to do. You have to set the RF communication layer of the bluetooth devices
and u're half done. You shall also have a GPRS profile activated.

[Modem1]
Modem = /dev/rfcomm0
Baud = 57600
SetVolume = 0
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATZ
Init3 = ATM0
FlowControl = None

[Dialer GPRS]
Username = a
Password = a
Phone = ATD*99***1#
Stupid Mode = 1
Inherits = Modem1
Auto Reconnect = 1

that's a part of my wvdial.conf. you just start `wvdial GPRS` and it starts dialing. It's a good idea to pair the devices to get rid of the auth nags.

Thanks dear for your input, I will definitely give it a try and let you know, if i face a problem okay.
Thanks.

Okay, you need to use Google to find answers to your problems. That's what I've just done and while I had to reword my search a couple of times because there isn't exactly a lot of info on Freespire you can find out what to do if you look hard enough.

Download these files and install them with dpkg. I've never used dpkg before so you're going to have to find out how do use it yourself, type 'dpkg --help' into a terminal and it will give you a small rundown.

http://apt.freespire.org/pool-bin/b/...m10.1_i386.deb
http://apt.freespire.org/pool-bin/b/...m10.1_i386.deb

Once you have those installed, go back to my original post and try the hcitool commands to see if you adapter is recognised correctly. You may need to manually start the Bluetooth service, again I've never used Freespire so I don't know what rc system it uses or how to do that, you'll have to find it out yourself.

The Freespire wiki seems like a pretty good resource, that is where I found most of my info so any trouble with these instructions, have a look there.

I did download these files and saved to my windows 'My document" I started freespire, copied these files to 'My Documents' in free spire. Went to console and gave the command to install, but dpkg is not able to find the archive or directory, where am I supposed to save these files? In linux which is the directory to save the file from where we can install them by dpkg? please guide! I will also try to search and find on my own, but help me!
Ashfaq.

In the terminal you need to use the cd command to change to the directory where the deb files are. If that is a bit much copy the files to your home directory (/home/yourname) which is where the terminal should start by default.