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cdale77
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 Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:36 am Post subject: general bluetooth difficulties |
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Hi all,
I'm struggling to get bluetooth working with gentoo. I'm using a usb bluetooth dongle that I would like setup with a keyboard. This setup worked with Ubuntu, but I'd much rather use Gentoo, if only I could get this working.
I'm pretty sure my kernel config is ok. I have all bluetooth options enabled, and. . .
| Code: | #lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2 Bluetooth
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After googling, I found https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-805068-highlight-bluetooth.html This post seems to indicate the current gentoo bluetooth doc and the bluez ebuild in portage are way out of date. So, I looked at the guide referenced in that posted, and updated to bluez-4.58 (the version of bluez in portage did not work for me, either). Moving to 4.58, however, produces a config directory which different than the one in the Gentoo guide. Also, there's no /etc/init.d/bluetooth service to start.
| Code: | # # slocate bluetooth | grep etc
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf
/etc/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth-hid2hci.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth.rules
/etc/runlevels/default/bluetooth
/etc/bluetooth
/etc/bluetooth/input.conf
/etc/bluetooth/network.conf
/etc/bluetooth/serial.conf
/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf
/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
/etc/conf.d/bluetooth
/etc/alsa/bluetooth.conf
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| Code: | # /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
bash: /etc/init.d/bluetooth: No such file or directory
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I'm stuck here. hciconfig gives me reasonable output, but none of the other bluetooth commands I've found seem to work, with and without my keyboard in discovery mode. I have no idea where to go from here. I can't find anything in my /etc/bluetooth/ that looks like the config options specified in the official gentoo bluetooth guide, and I'm totally stuck. Most web references seem to point to using a gui tool -- both kbluetooth and blueman don't seem to work for me. Thanks in advance for any pointers!
| Code: | # 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
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| Code: | # hcitool -inq
Invalid device: No such device
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linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r6
kde 4.3.3
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| Did you check the guide I linked to in that thread ? |
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cdale77
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| Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:40 am Post subject: |
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Hi. Your other post was very helpful in upgrading bluez. Thanks.
I got stopped at the first step of the guide (url now corrected):
| Code: | # hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such devi |
I looked through it for some hints on the config files, but I couldn't figure anything out. |
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smlgbl
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Hi all,
any news on this one? I just received my shiny new bt-mouse yesterday, but can't get it to work. I can hook up my phone just nice, but the mouse doesn't appear. I have bluez-4.39-r2 installed.
Any hints appreciated...
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