I've struggled with this for weeks now, and I just can't seem to make it work.

Firstly, I've followed every single HOWTO and snippet of text related to the 6260, Bluetooth, and gnubox Google will give me. I even gotten to the point, by following all those HOWTOs, that I can run "Debug->Test comm channel" from gnubox and get the 6260 attempting a PPP connection to my host. But from there I'm stuck. Regardless of the app I use (built-in browser, Opera, and the SyncML client), I cannot initiate a real PPP connection between the phone and the host.

Before I spam you with config files, has anyone gotten this to work with the 6260 and Linux?

Can you post a small how to on the same? I will try it at my end.
I am new to smart phones, I am good on Linux.

Amish.

Can you post a small how to on the same? I will try it at my end.
I am new to smart phones, I am good on Linux.


Sure, I'd be happy to.

I've followed the following HOWTOs, which aren't specific to the 6260, but are Series 60 focused (or at least Symbian):

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mraento/symbian/bt-ap.html
http://www.teaparty.net/technotes/blue-gprs.html
http://multisync.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?Nokia6600Instructions
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~leonard/linux-n6600-howto.html

And I even picked up the book Linux Unwired (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lnxunwired/) which was extremely helpful, being co-authored by Edd Dumbill.

After following these HOWTOs, I can convince my 6260 (via Opera or some similar app) to initiate a PPP connection to my Linux host (running RHEL4) but I can't seem to have that connection persist long enough to assign an IP address to the 6260 or (obviously) route traffic over the network. I have a strong feeling this may all come down to my PPP peer setup, or perhaps something wonky with the rfcomm serial interface (since it tends to end up disconnected quite a lot).

If you get any further, I'd love to know how you went about it.