I have had a Thinkpad R51 for some years now. This laptop has built-in Bluetooth which I have never had occasion to use until now. I have recently aquired an Android 'phone so I thought I'd try out this Bluetooth thing.
The Thinkpad is running Debian Testing/Squeeze with a 2.6.34 kernel. The first thing I discovered was that the Bluetooth adapter wasn't being recognised at all. Compiling in a few extra modules in the kernel solved that one. I also had to install the rfkill package and a few other Bluetooth related packages. The Bluetooth indicator light now lights up when the laptop is booted and I can turn it on and off using Blueman. So far so good. I managed to pair the laptop with my 'phone and it shows up in the Blueman-Manager as a device. This is where things start to go pear shaped. At the righthand end of the bar which shows my 'phone in Blueman there are some coloured icons and if I hover my mouse cursor over that it displays a popup showing signal quality and strength. These icons appear and disappear regularly about every three seconds. When the icons are visible the signal strength is shown as about 60% and the link quality 100% but when the icons disappear the link quality is -1 and the signal strength is -1. Is that normal? If I try and send a file to the 'phone using Blueman it gets as far as displaying 'Contacting' but nothing more happens. If I try and 'Browse' files on my 'phone Nautilus opens and displays a message 'Could not display "obex://" Protocol not supported'. Can anyone shed any light on this please? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1290251911.2176...@dataman1
