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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Ricky Soh <rickysoh@gmail.com>
Cc: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Newbie2
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:18:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092989927.18082.56.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db972f4304081918374eb047c6@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ricky,

> I have bought a bluetooth dongle and is working in linux environment.
> However, i have problem getting rfcomm and hcitool to work. I did a
> hciconfig and see that the device is up and working. However when i
> try to connect to it using
> 
> rfcomm -i hciX  connect hci0
> 
> I got: can't connect RFcomm socket: Host is down. When i did hcitool cc method:
> 
> hcitool -i hci0 cc --role=m 00:01:...
> Can't create connection: Connection timed out
> or 
> Can't create connection: Input/output error
> 
> Sorry, i am new in this field. Could anyone give me some pointers?

read the manpages of these tools and be aware of that you never can
connect back to your dongle. Loopback connections are not possible with
Bluetooth.

Regards

Marcel




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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20  1:37 [Bluez-users] Newbie2 Ricky Soh
2004-08-20  8:18 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
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2004-08-21  7:21     ` Marcel Holtmann

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