Hi, >hcid daemon was already active, with the -x -s >options. man >hcid provided no explanation of the -x option
-x means stand for "experimental" in hcid daemon of bluez-utils. This is mainly for development tests. Just a thought: can you test it with restarting the hcid daemon without this "x" flag? rgs, Rami Rosen On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Omer Zak<w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:19 +0300, Nitzan Brumer wrote: >> I bought the LVT-010 bluetooth dongle for my acer one. I use it with >> Ubuntu 8.10 and it works great out of the box. no problem there. >> http://www.bug.co.il/prodtxt.asp?id=6233&perur=1&t=10 > > Thanks also to Geoffrey Mendelson, Noam Rathaus and Rami Rosen. > The message was that nowadays Linux compatibility of Bluetooth devices > is not a problem. > > I ended up buying a no-name brand, which looks the same as LVT-010. > > It identified itself to lsusb as: > ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) > > According to > http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=bluetooth > this USB dongle is Linux compatible. > > While this dongle was found by my Nokia E71 cellphone, initially I was > not successful in doing things with it. However > http://howto-pages.org/v600i_bluetooth/ provided me with useful advice > how to test the connection, which proved to work out of the box (except > for failure to pair and for not working under regular user): > - '/sbin/lsmod' showed rfcomm,hci_usb,l2cap. > - As root, 'hciconfig' displayed details about device hci0. In > particular, I saw the line: > UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN > - 'hcitool scan' found my Nokia E71, in which I activated Bluetooth and > set it to be discoverable. > - 'l2ping xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' (where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the E71's > address as reported by 'hcitool scan') worked. > > The document was not up-to-date when it came to dealing with PIN > helpers. hcid daemon was already active, with the -x -s options. man > hcid provided no explanation of the -x option, while -s option meant > that an internal SDP server was activated (probably meaning that no sdpd > daemon is necessary). > > - The command 'kbluetoothd' is now 'kbluetooth' and it did not discover > my E71 when run under my user; but under root it did discover - if my > E71's bluetooth was already active when 'kbluetooth' was invoked. > Then when it accepted files from the E71, they were saved under root. > - 'kbtobexclient' worked out of the box, and I was successful in copying > a file from PC to the E71. > - I was not successful in my attempts to pair the PC with the E71. > > P.S.: my system is Debian Lenny, with bluez installed from Debian > repositories. > > --- Omer > > -- > MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC world. > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
