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porphyry5

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Registered: 2014-06-04

Posts: 88

[SOLVED] bluetoothctl message "Waiting to connect to bluetoothd..."

My first attempt to use a bluetooth device, a Logitech keyboard. I inserted its dongle in usb port and from instructions on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bluetooth I did

pacman -S bluez bluez-utils
modprobe btusb
bluetoothctl
  Waiting to connect to bluetoothd...
Ctrl-C
hciconfig hci0 sspmode 0
  Can't set Simple pairing mode on hci0: Network is down (100)

Which network is it referring to?
Additionally, I have also tried 'bluetoothctl -a' and adding my username to the lp line in /etc/groups, no difference

Last edited by porphyry5 (2016-09-30 16:57:18)

pillowHugger95

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Registered: 2016-09-29

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] bluetoothctl message "Waiting to connect to bluetoothd..."

Have you started the bluetooth service?

# systemctl start bluetooth 

and if so are there any errors listed when you type:

# systemctl status bluetooth 

porphyry5

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Registered: 2014-06-04

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] bluetoothctl message "Waiting to connect to bluetoothd..."

My apologies, that was the problem, but I forgot to return here and mark it already solved. Thank you.

bihariNiger

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Registered: 2023-11-11

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] bluetoothctl message "Waiting to connect to bluetoothd..."

Have you started the bluetooth service?

# systemctl start bluetooth 

and if so are there any errors listed when you type:

# systemctl status bluetooth 

this is my output

# Failed to start bluetooth.service: Unit bluetooth.service not found. 

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,202

Re: [SOLVED] bluetoothctl message "Waiting to connect to bluetoothd..."

Please don't necrobump 6 year old solved topics.

As mentioned in the OP, make sure bluez is installed.

Open a new topic if this is insufficient.

Closing.