Orange SPV m500 & OS X Over bluetooth. Possible?

Guest 38314 · 22-08-2005, 07:51

After being alerted to the SPV m500 on the bargain forums I picked one up and so far I am really happy there is only one thing I cant get my head around.

I am trying to share my internet connection over bluetooth from my Mac Mini (running latest tiger) to the PPC. So far no joy at all. I can pair the m500 with the Mac (as "other device" not "cellphone/smartphone") Once it's paired however I cant really seem to do anything with it. I cant browse the device or create a bluetooth 'connection' to it. If I look in the BT sys pref pane I can see it there as a favourite but it says not connected.

I bought (grrr) missingsync from http://www.markspace.com but it doesnt appear to work with the m500

Anyone got any ideas?

M@rtin · 22-08-2005, 08:35

Unfortunately the M500 has the very limited Microsoft bluetooth stack, rather than the decent Widcomm one as installed on other PocketPCs. This only supports a few profiles which doesn't include file transfer.

I'm not entirely sure how you'd go about this on a Mac, but with a PC you'd set up a bluetooth modem on the PC and connect the 2 using the serial port profile. You might get some info at the following sites (essential bookmarking for new PPC Phone users!):

www.modaco.com
www.xda-developers.com

Guest 38314 · 22-08-2005, 08:38

Thought that might be the case. I noticed the profiles available were a bit light. I think it might be possible, as you say, to do this over a serial connection.

Guest 38314 · 22-08-2005, 10:58

Bought a mini WIFI SDIO card from ebay problem should now be solved