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The "internet connect" option in the Setup Assistant configures the DUN/Serial port on the device for use with the "Bluetooth Modem" port that is in the Network control panel, but we should still create a serial port for the device if it has one.

Why is Apple creating (several) serial ports for each DUN and SPP service of a device since Apple Bluetooth software 1.7? You even create a new serial port bound to the SPP of a headset. Personally I liked the solution of Bluetooth software 1.0 and 1.1 where you selected the device bound to the Bluetooth-modem in the menu bar. It gets more and more to a chaos state... Because I have a popup menu which lists all serial ports (POSIX) and Bluetooth devices, now I have to filter with the help of the IOKit all. Traditionally serial ports had been only created by experienced users which was no user experience issue then. I do not use the Bluetooth UI API because of several reason: - requires at least v10.3.0 for Carbon access - device filtering is difficult (possible at all?) in the C API - service selection UI is horrible because all devices and services are listed. The ones which do not match are grey. Nevertheless the user has to search all devices to find that single non-grey service entry. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Bluetooth-dev mailing list (Bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/bluetooth-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com