On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atw...@attglobal.net> wrote: > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0 > and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop it was > running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries have changed > substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE > dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for > /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by. > > TIA > -Robin
Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by - Building the appropriate communications-types modules - Starting the bluetooth init script - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to connect/disconnect