[SOLVED] Cannot get Bluetooth to work.

Noneus · 2008-05-25 16:37:58

Hallo,

Well. I can't get bluetooth to work. I have 3 different Bluetooth Dongles to test. lsusb lists them like this:

Bus 001 Device 027: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 001 Device 026: ID 057c:3800 AVM GmbH BlueFRITZ! Bluetooth Stick
Bus 002 Device 014: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

2 Obviously have the same chip. On my fathers Fedora box all these dongles work. So I started the bluetooth daemon. I connected all 3 sticks and this is what my messages.log tells me:

May 25 18:33:57 aseria hcid[30513]: Bluetooth HCI daemon
May 25 18:33:57 aseria hidd[30515]: Bluetooth HID daemon
May 25 18:34:06 aseria usb 2-9: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 15
May 25 18:34:07 aseria usb 2-9: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 25 18:34:08 aseria usb 1-2.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 29
May 25 18:34:08 aseria usb 1-2.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 25 18:34:13 aseria usb 1-2.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 30
May 25 18:34:13 aseria usb 1-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

They are not recognized. hcid should detect them according to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth
After searching the forums the solution for others was to turn on dbus. But my dbus is on.

lsmod | grep blue:

bluetooth              56484  8 hidp,hci_vhci,hci_uart,bpa10x,bfusb,rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb

hcitool lists no available devices. What am I missing? Someone has an idea?

Stefan

Last edited by Noneus (2008-05-25 19:42:10)

Damnshock · 2008-05-25 17:07:19

Could you post the output of "hciconfig"?

Noneus · 2008-05-25 17:44:49

[root@aseria bluetooth]# hciconfig
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
        DOWN
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0

hci1:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
        DOWN
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0

hci2:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
        DOWN
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0

[root@aseria bluetooth]# hcitool dev
Devices:

Hmm. Do I need to power them on? If I only connect one, it doesn't work too btw.

UPDATE: hciconfig hci0 up did the job. thanks for the hint.

Last edited by Noneus (2008-05-25 19:41:52)

Neldar · 2014-11-06 20:39:11

Hello,

I have the same issue, I can't get my hands-free kit to work. I want to use it with skype or whatever, but when I try to connect it, i've got:

[bluetooth]# connect 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED 
Attempting to connect to 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED
[CHG] Device 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED Connected: yes
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.NotAvailable
[CHG] Device 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED Connected: no
[bluetooth]# info 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED 
Device 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED
	Name: PLT_ML20
	Alias: PLT_ML20
	Class: 0x200404
	Icon: audio-card
	Paired: yes
	Trusted: yes
	Blocked: no
	Connected: no
	LegacyPairing: no
	UUID: Headset                   (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Handsfree                 (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)

I did your manipulation, and I have

`--> sudo modprobe rfcomm

`--> sudo rfcomm bind rfcomm0 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED

`--> ls /dev |grep rfcomm
rfcomm0

But I can't get it to work as an audio device, it still make when I try to connect it:

[bluetooth]# connect 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED
[CHG] Device 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED Connected: yes
[CHG] Device 0C:E0:E4:3A:D6:ED Connected: no

what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

jasonwryan · 2014-11-06 21:16:07

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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#1 2008-05-25 16:37:58

[SOLVED] Cannot get Bluetooth to work.

#2 2008-05-25 17:07:19

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get Bluetooth to work.

#3 2008-05-25 17:44:49

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get Bluetooth to work.

#4 2014-11-06 20:39:11

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get Bluetooth to work.

#5 2014-11-06 21:16:07

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get Bluetooth to work.

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