I'm making some progress.
Below are details of my progress for those who are interested.
I am not presenting any questions. If you choose to share your own
trials and tribulations please do, but don't feel that I'm waiting on
help, I'm not, I still have more work I need to do first, such as
reading the whole man page I detail below.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Translating the gentoo docs to be more generic, it looks like:
1. Ensure the kernel modules are present on your system (as the distros we
have been discussing seem to be acknowledged as BT enabled, we'll assume
that they are available, but if later steps fail, remember to revisit
this)
2. check out what the usb tools tell you about your bluetooth device.
3. Make sure bluez-libs and bluez-utils are installed.
4. Make sure the BT service is started /etc/init.d/bluetooth, or a similar
name.
5. use hciconfig and see what it reports.
I suggest Don does this and reports back.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# ps -A | grep blue
5317 ? 00:00:00 bluez-pin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# hciconfig
hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:10:60:31:97:08 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:731 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0
TX bytes:607 acl:0 sco:0 commands:27 errors:0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]#
Ok, so we know that the laptop knows the card is there...
Now how do I do the bt equivalant of iwlist scan hci0 ?
I did a urpmq
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# urpmq bluez
problem reading hdlist or synthesis file of medium "update_source"
no package named bluez
The following packages contain bluez:
bluez-bluefw
bluez-gnome
bluez-hcidump
bluez-hciemu
bluez-pin
bluez-utils
bluez-utils-cups
libbluez2
libbluez2-devel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]#
I've installed utils, pin, lib, hcidump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# bluepin --help
Usage: bluepin <in|out> <address> [name]
or bluepin --dbus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]#
Well that was informative...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# hcitool dev
Devices:
hci0 00:10:60:31:97:08
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:18:0F:DE:55:8D Froggie Phone
PROGRESS! :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# l2ping 00:18:0F:DE:55:8D
Ping: 00:18:0F:DE:55:8D from 00:10:60:31:97:08 (data size 44) ...
0 bytes from 00:18:0F:DE:55:8D id 0 time 22.24ms
0 bytes from 00:18:0F:DE:55:8D id 1 time 26.02ms
0 bytes from 00:18:0F:DE:55:8D id 2 time 42.96ms
Per: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml#doc_chap5
I suspect we're not connected at present...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]# hcitool --help
hcitool - HCI Tool ver 3.4
Usage:
hcitool [options] <command> [command parameters]
Options:
<SNIP>
Hummm....
Then I did a #man hcitool
That's got some useful info in it.
This is where I'm up to now.
I thought I'd post so others who are also playing about can follow along
and share experiences if they choose.
Cheers Don
