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Celos

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Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 14

Bluetooth issues

Hi,

I'm trying to make my bluetooth work on my dell D830 laptop.

If I run lsusb, i see my bluetooth card:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:8140 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 360 Bluetooth

I have installed bluez-libs and bluez-utils.

if i run hciconfig i see:

hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
        DOWN 
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0

Then i run: sudo /etc/rc.d/bluetooth start

:: Starting bluetooth subsystem:  hcid                                                [DONE]

Checking hcicong again:

hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
        DOWN 
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0

No change.

So I up hci0 myself: sudo hciconfig hci0 up, then checking again:

hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:1A:6B:8A:0B:B9 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
        UP RUNNING 
        RX bytes:367 acl:0 sco:0 events:42 errors:0
        TX bytes:149 acl:0 sco:0 commands:38 errors:0

I see now a MAC, so i think it should work ...

So i run now: sudo hcitool scan, nothing appear, sudo hcitool inq, nothing too. I don't undestand why it doesn't work ... My bluetooth's led on my laptop is turn off, i don't know if it's an acpi problem, or my bluetooth is not really installed ....

I don't know what should i do to make it work

Celos

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Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 14

Re: Bluetooth issues

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Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: Bluetooth issues

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Dude, tell the others what you did to solve de problem

PD: by the way, add a [SOLVED] to the post title

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Bluetooth issues

up

Dude, tell the others what you did to solve de problem

PD: by the way, add a [SOLVED] to the post title

I don't think he solved the problem, or are you trying to be funny?

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Celos

Member

Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 14

Re: Bluetooth issues

up

Dude, tell the others what you did to solve de problem

PD: by the way, add a [SOLVED] to the post title

I don't think he solved the problem, or are you trying to be funny?

I still havn't solved the problem ...

Celos

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Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 14

Re: Bluetooth issues

Hmmm, something weird just happened.

I wanted to check if it was not a hardware issue, is my card really working ? So i boot under windows vista (huhu), and i activate my card, everythng works fine on windows !

I forgot to stop the card, so it's stil running, i boot under archlinux. The card is still working, and i run a hcitool scan, everything works fine too !!!

So the problem seems to be the activation of the card, archlinux doesn't activate the card, how can this be possible ? and how can resolve this problem ?

Thanks

I know booting under windows before could be a solution, but i don't want it

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: Bluetooth issues

For my taste it's a old story that I can't get throu.
The bluez version 3.20 (latest available for Arch) still a bunch of flaws, even I still waiting for the latest 3.22, I can't imagine whether there'll be a clue.
Any how coming back to your issue, I suppose that you should put bluetooth deamon into rc.conf. If it won't work than you might have to restart it (/etc/rc.d/bluetooth restart).
Some time is getting the wrong class, "hciconfig hci0 class 0x3e0100" may cure a little.
Seems that every small problem the hcid die and no more dialog on the dbus. Only to restart bluetooth deamon gives some light, but if no more problem are encountered.
My pairing did only while hcidump'ing or dbus monitoring. Strange that the win pairing doesn't remain for the linux one.
I was reading bluez mailing list to shed some light, but I just realize to wait until a brand new  version will come available, and maybe working.
The most of these problems got started when the bluez team went into the dbus adventure of coding. Then even the kbluetooth (my favourite) having a lot of problem to be solved.
I can't guess how long will take, I like they'll give us soon a better conditions.
Other problem are because they triyng to move to Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and back compatibility may suffer some lack. That's my suspect, maybe I've to change to a new USB dongle.

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Last edited by TheSaint (2007-12-01 12:51:18)

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