From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Installing bluetooth devices
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:06:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127401561.12287.0.camel@blade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127311478.4331687601b7b@student.up.ac.za>
Hi Reinier,
> I have some trouble running a bluetooth app. I tried to contact the developers
> of the app for help, but they couldn't/wouldn't help me. Apparently I need to
> install my bluetooth devices (I'm using a usb dongle to connect to my mobile
> phone) to be able to run the app. "rfcomm -a" from the console returns an empty
> list (in fact it returns nothing at all). I suppose this means that I have no
> bluetooth devices installed, but I am able to execute "hcitool scan" which
> returns the correct mac address of my phone. I'm not sure what to make of this.I
> got error messages like
>
> open /dev/bluetooth/rfcomm0, No such file or directory
> bt_rfcomm_config failed
> unable to create rfcomm connection
>
> I've heard that I have to configure my dongle some how using "rfcomm". I've
> tried some bluetooth appz which came with my distro ( Suse9.3 ) and I'm able to
> communicate with certain types of phones. I'm rather new to bluez, so a detailed
> answer would be much appreciated!
why don't you tell us what application you are using? However using
"rfcomm bind ..." could be the solution for your problem.
Regards
Marcel
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2005-09-21 14:04 [Bluez-users] Installing bluetooth devices Reinier Coetzer
2005-09-22 15:06 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
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