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infernova

Member

Registered: 2004-04-09

Posts: 61

Bluetooth...help

I looked over Redhat, and Debian pages, and they have a built-in packages for Bluetooth.

As for Arch itself, I don't see any, so I went to this site

http://kde-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/

After reading the "Requirements part", I realized these are needed

http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Within Arch itself, only the first two are available from pacman.

I was wondering if anyone here ever use the Bluetooth in Arch, and successfully synched with mobile phones (with Bluetooth of course)

Please share your workarounds here, thanks!

iBertus

Member

From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Bluetooth...help

No, but I've been thinking of getting a bluetooth phone and would be interested if anyone else has managed to do this successfully.

infernova

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Registered: 2004-04-09

Posts: 61

Re: Bluetooth...help

I managed to get mine woking....finally!

Still, I have no clue what services involved, and i still need some explanation over few things hanging in my cloud.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=14186&highlight=phone

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Bluetooth...help

As mentioned on the bluez site, bluez-utils and bluez-libs are all you need to get going - the others are nice-to-have but not essential. I've been running mine with just those two packages - the set-up is a Dell laptop, a 3Com BT card, and a couple of BT phones, Siemens S55 and SE T630. The only thing I use it for is net access over GPRS, and I've had no problems.

infernova

Member

Registered: 2004-04-09

Posts: 61

Re: Bluetooth...help

What about those SDPD, RDIP. RFCOMM things that started together with bluetooth services?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Bluetooth...help

Your question could be clearer. If you mean "where do they come from?", they're all part of bluez-utils - just do

pacman -Ql bluez-utils

and you'll see them listed.

If you mean "what are they for?" check out the corresponding man pages, or head back over to bluez.org.