Re: [Bluez-users] bluepin with SuSE 9.0

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Michael,

> I think I have a working 'bluepin' script (the one which is responsible 
> for the PIN entry GUI during pairing) for SuSE 9.0, which hopefully 
> addresses all the problems several folks have suffered from in the last 
> weeks. The Script is attached to this note.
> 
> I have made the following changes to the script from 
> http://bluez.sourceforge.net/download/bluepin:
> 
> - moved the "import gtk" statement behind the "set_display ()" call
>    (as this is the case in the current script in cvs).
> - replaced the "if arg[i][0] != '-' and i==1:" line with
>    "if i==1 and arg[i][0] == ':':"
>    (as proposed by Jean-Marc Autexier
>     http://www.autexier.de/jmau/linux/Bluetooth.html
>     and others)
> 
> Furthermore, the following packages need to be present on the SuSE 9.0 
> box (which are normally not installed):
> 
> - python-gtk (bindings)
> - python-numeric
> 
> These changes may apply accordingly to earlier versions of SuSE Linux, 
> too (I have observed similar problems with 'bluepin' in SuSE 8.x, too).
> 
> 
> Maybe someone out of the BlueZ community may put this script on his web 
> site for the public (my institute home page won't live very much longer).

My plan is to make a last bluez-utils release for this version of the
Bluetooth library. It should address exactly these problems with the
pin_helper. Please send me confirmations that these modification are
working fine on other distributions.

Regards

Marcel




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