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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,914

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Bluetooth

Hi,

I am having problems with bluetooth one day it works another nothing

is there a way to connect to say phone via command line

I use hcitool scan but I get nothing at the moment

 hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:11:67:38:60:02 ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10
        UP RUNNING PSCAN 
        RX bytes:502 acl:0 sco:0 events:38 errors:0
        TX bytes:403 acl:0 sco:0 commands:29 errors:0
        Features: 0xbf 0xfe 0x8d 0x78 0x08 0x18 0x00 0x00
        Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
        Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK 
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT 
        Name: 'BlueZ (0)'
        Class: 0x3e0100
        Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Object Transfer, Audio
        Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
        HCI Ver: 1.2 (0x2) HCI Rev: 0x1fe LMP Ver: 1.2 (0x2) LMP Subver: 0x1fe
        Manufacturer: Integrated System Solution Corp. (57)

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Mr Green

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Bluetooth

Connect meaning what exactly? Send/receive files? get online? Other?

I also find bluetooth unstable, but I'm pretty sure it's down to the ancient USB dongle I'm using.

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,914

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Re: Bluetooth

well I use bluetooth in Konqueror ... most of the time it works no problem

hcitool scan shows nothing

yet on me lappy it works fine picks up my mobile phone

But Gnome-Bluetooth does not work on there

Just not sure what to look for ....

[EDIT] just rebooted and bloody thing works go figure lol

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Mr Green