I have a macbook that I removed the bluetooth PAN interface. This was removed wile troubleshooting an issue with tethering to my Iphone over bluetooth.
This is located under network preferences. After removing the interface I am not able to add a new Bluetooth PAN interface. This does not show up as an option when I try to add a new interface.
Does anyone know how to get this interface back?
Thanks
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
This is an old problem - solutions are suggested here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2065675?start=0&tstart=0
I created the problem exactly as you did. I was trying to fix a tethering issue and deleted the Bluetooth PAN interface and then found that contrary to normal Apple procedures, it was no longer available.
The solutions given in the link, basically, by deleting preferences files, force the System to rebuild and reinstall the Bluetooth PAN interface. However, though I got this to work, I'm not exactly sure what did it.
I tried deleting the NetworkInterfaces.plist file (see Spankymonkey) and rebooting; and then deleting the preferences.plist file (see MacMan96) and rebooting, but neither worked. I then deleted com.apple.Bluetooth.plist AND NetworkInterfaces.plist as per Spankymonkey's full solution (I couldn't find any of the other com.apple.etc files that he lists), rebooted, and it worked. I suspect the com.apple.Bluetooth.plist file might do the full job alone, if anyone wants to trial that!
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Network interface - Bluetooth PAN missing
