I tried whatever I could, but I could not get bluez to accept the NAP bluetooth role: root@apbureau:~# dbus-send --system --dest=org.bluez --print-reply /org/bluez/hci0 --type=method_call org.bluez.NetworkServer1.Register string:“nap” string:“br-lan”
method return time=1687252214.815780 sender=:1.6 -> destination=:1.8 serial=18 reply_serial=2
root@apbureau:~# bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# show
Controller 00:00:46:76:22:01 (public)
Name: APBureau
Alias: APBureau
Class: 0x00000300
Powered: yes
PowerState: on
Discoverable: no
DiscoverableTimeout: 0x000000b4
Pairable: yes
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d0542
Discovering: no
Roles: central
Roles: central-peripheral
ExperimentalFeatures: BlueZ Experimental Simu.. (671b10b5-42c0-4696-9227-eb28d1b049d6)
ExperimentalFeatures: BlueZ Experimental LL p.. (15c0a148-c273-11ea-b3de-0242ac130004)
[bluetooth]# quit
root@apbureau:~# ifconfig -a
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:C9:B3:B0:B9:8D
inet addr:192.168.177.26 Bcast:192.168.177.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2001:470:1f0b:fb7:8ac9:b3ff:feb0:b98d/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::8ac9:b3ff:feb0:b98d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:4096 Metric:1
RX packets:7540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10270089 (9.7 MiB) TX bytes:1423285 (1.3 MiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:65:92:73:20:68
inet6 addr: fe80::1465:92ff:fe73:2068/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1504 Metric:1
RX packets:4060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6730 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:381382 (372.4 KiB) TX bytes:7105462 (6.7 MiB)
Interrupt:143
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 96:33:AF:71:25:EE
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:143
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:C9:B3:B0:B9:8D
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:4000 Metric:1
RX packets:12963 errors:0 dropped:20 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:16925012 (16.1 MiB) TX bytes:1686852 (1.6 MiB)
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 88:C9:B3:B0:B9:8E
UP BROADCAST PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:4000 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr A0:CE:C8:F9:28:76
UP BROADCAST PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:65:92:73:20:68
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:65:92:73:20:68
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lan3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:65:92:73:20:68
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6655 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:308302 (301.0 KiB) TX bytes:7039459 (6.7 MiB)
lan4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:65:92:73:20:68
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17607 (17.1 KiB) TX bytes:17607 (17.1 KiB)
tunl0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-30-30-00-30-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:65:92:73:20:68
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wl0-ap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:24:58:00:AC:7D
inet6 addr: fe80::424:58ff:fe00:ac7d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2719 (2.6 KiB) TX bytes:479263 (468.0 KiB)
wl2-ap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:52:86:00:01
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:52ff:fe86:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:906 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1332 (1.3 KiB) TX bytes:395144 (385.8 KiB)
root@apbureau:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
wan no wireless extensions.
lan1 no wireless extensions.
lan2 no wireless extensions.
lan3 no wireless extensions.
lan4 no wireless extensions.
tunl0 no wireless extensions.
eth2 no wireless extensions.
eth3 no wireless extensions.
br-lan no wireless extensions.
wl0-ap0 no wireless extensions.
wl2-ap0 no wireless extensions.
eth4 no wireless extensions.
root@apbureau:~# rmmod bnep0
module is not loaded
root@apbureau:~# rmmod bnep
unloading the module failed
any clue why nothing seems to work? is a firmware mod needed for the BT adapter to run as an access point?