[SUMMARY, 95% SUCCESS] Re: Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,

>hcid daemon was already active, with the -x -s >options.  man
>hcid provided no explanation of the -x option

-x means stand for "experimental" in hcid  daemon of bluez-utils.
This is mainly for development tests.

Just a thought: can you test it with restarting the hcid daemon
without this "x" flag?

rgs,
Rami Rosen



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Omer Zak<w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:19 +0300, Nitzan Brumer wrote:
>> I bought the LVT-010 bluetooth dongle for my acer one. I use it with
>> Ubuntu 8.10 and it works great out of the box. no problem there.
>> http://www.bug.co.il/prodtxt.asp?id=6233&perur=1&t=10
>
> Thanks also to Geoffrey Mendelson, Noam Rathaus and Rami Rosen.
> The message was that nowadays Linux compatibility of Bluetooth devices
> is not a problem.
>
> I ended up buying a no-name brand, which looks the same as LVT-010.
>
> It identified itself to lsusb as:
>  ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
>
> According to
>  http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=bluetooth
> this USB dongle is Linux compatible.
>
> While this dongle was found by my Nokia E71 cellphone, initially I was
> not successful in doing things with it.  However
> http://howto-pages.org/v600i_bluetooth/ provided me with useful advice
> how to test the connection, which proved to work out of the box (except
> for failure to pair and for not working under regular user):
> - '/sbin/lsmod' showed rfcomm,hci_usb,l2cap.
> - As root, 'hciconfig' displayed details about device hci0.  In
>  particular, I saw the line:
>  UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
> - 'hcitool scan' found my Nokia E71, in which I activated Bluetooth and
>  set it to be discoverable.
> - 'l2ping xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' (where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the E71's
>  address as reported by 'hcitool scan') worked.
>
> The document was not up-to-date when it came to dealing with PIN
> helpers.  hcid daemon was already active, with the -x -s options.  man
> hcid provided no explanation of the -x option, while -s option meant
> that an internal SDP server was activated (probably meaning that no sdpd
> daemon is necessary).
>
> - The command 'kbluetoothd' is now 'kbluetooth' and it did not discover
>  my E71 when run under my user; but under root it did discover - if my
>  E71's bluetooth was already active when 'kbluetooth' was invoked.
>  Then when it accepted files from the E71, they were saved under root.
> - 'kbtobexclient' worked out of the box, and I was successful in copying
>  a file from PC to the E71.
> - I was not successful in my attempts to pair the PC with the E71.
>
> P.S.: my system is Debian Lenny, with bluez installed from Debian
> repositories.
>
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