I cannot use my bluetooth card! :(

ozeta · 2008-04-17 15:43:06

Hi, i'm configuring my notebook ( a dell xps m1330).

i have an integrated bluetooth card, so i followed the wiki ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_Mouse )

and:

bash-3.2# /etc/rc.d/bluetooth start
:: Starting bluetooth subsystem:  hcid hidd                              [DONE]
bash-3.2# dmesg | grep -i blue
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8

so i think that arch recognize the bluetooth adapter. but when i try to use hidd:

[ozeta@dolphin ~]$ hidd --search
Searching ...
[ozeta@dolphin ~]$ hcitool inq
Inquiring ...
Inquiry failed.: No such device

what can i do to let the bluetooth starts?

Last edited by ozeta (2008-04-17 15:44:07)

saciel · 2008-04-18 01:04:04

Ok, I just tried something similiar and for me the very same problem appears when I try to connect my Motorola A780 to my IBM X60 Thinkpad.

Running 'hcitool dev' should display local devices but it only reads "Devices:" without listing any devices. For the commands you tried I get the same results, so for the dmesg call.
We seem to have the same problem, that the device isn't detected correctly. Otherwise we should get a device node /dev/hci0 that I do not get.

After starting to write this post I was looking around the web for a while until I hit a gentoo HowTo about Bluetooth Headsets. There I found out that dbus is needed for running bluetooth. I checked, had no dbus running, started it and there was my device. Probably this should get it going for you, too, I guess.

However, during my inquiries, I found the following hint together with some corresponding links on ubuntu forums:
On some Dell laptops it appears to be necessary to install newest drivers from Dell's support pages in Windows to get the bluetooth module working under Linux. (At least D430 for with Gutsy / Hardy and D830 and D630)

If you are still facing difficulties, you might want to check:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_a_bluetooth_headset
That's where I got my information from.

[ADD-ON]
I still have problems connecting my cell phone. Please tell me if you can get your bluetooth mouse working, now.

Last edited by saciel (2008-04-18 02:08:18)

ozeta · 2008-04-18 18:42:37

bash-3.2# lsusb
Bus 007 Device 004: ID 05a9:7670 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

what's wrong?? here should be displayed the bluetooth adapter...

saciel · 2008-04-18 18:47:23

Your bluetooth adapter is probably one of those Broadcom devices. After enabling bluetooth with "echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth" I get a new Broadcom on 'lsusb' which disappears again on disabling.

What's still wrong?

.:B:. · 2008-04-18 23:31:01

ozeta wrote:

bash-3.2# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver
what's wrong?? here should be displayed the bluetooth adapter...

Why do you have a Logitech receiver if the mouse is supposedly bluetooth? Are you using two mice at the same time? If not, that looks to me like a non-bluetooth regular wireless mouse.

Last edited by B (2008-04-18 23:32:49)

ozeta · 2008-04-24 08:35:49

no, the mouse isn't a bluetooth device!

saciel · 2008-04-24 10:32:31

As I mentioned, it's most likely one of those 'broadcom's. Have you tried my other advice? What happend?

Make sure DBUS is running. This is how I got it working. However, my device - a motorola cellphone - always wants to secure the connection using a pin and my laptop always says he could not connect. During further inquieries I happend to find out that it might be a bug from the latest DBUS update as other people that had it working before, suddenly face the same problem.

ozeta · 2008-04-24 11:33:48

i have not an 'ibm' directory on my filesystem...what's wrong?

Last edited by ozeta (2008-04-24 11:56:35)

saciel · 2008-04-24 14:33:02

Of course you don't have an ibm tree in proc. You have a dell notebook... however you should have a bluetooth file somewhere around there try:

find /proc -name bluetooh

If you find it have a look inside to see if bluetooth really is enabled.

.:B:. · 2008-04-24 16:07:21

If you want to use HIDD you need to change *tada* the settings. Surprisingly hidd won't find anything if you don't enable it.

Check this snippet from /etc/conf.d/bluetooth (and especially the default setting):

# Run the bluetooth HID daemon (default: false)
HIDD_ENABLE="true"

Bluetooth mouse works fine over here, haven't checked connecting from my mobile to my laptop, but sending stuff from my laptop to my mobile goes just fine.

Last edited by B (2008-04-24 16:11:30)

ozeta · 2008-04-24 16:22:12

saciel wrote:

Of course you don't have an ibm tree in proc. You have a dell notebook... however you should have a bluetooth file somewhere around there try:
find /proc -name bluetooh
If you find it have a look inside to see if bluetooth really is enabled.

bash-3.2# find /proc -name bluetooth
bash-3.2#

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