Re: [Bluez-users] Everything seems normal yet...

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Arthur,

> I have a latitude X1 Dell. Bluetooth is reported to work out of the box for 
> this model, however I just can't make it work.
> I installed a kubuntu hoary on it, the kernel is linux 2.6.12-9.
> There is a toggle key on the keyboard for bluetooth, according to a led 
> indicator and dmesg it works. Better, KDE used to display an info message 
> saying the state had been changed.
> Well it said that and right after it would display a message complaining about 
> the class being set to 0x0...
> I went into hcid.conf as advised and saw the class was NOT 0x0... wtf? Well I 
> changed it along with the pin helper application.
> Didn't do anything, even after reboots etc.
> Finally I tried  hcid -f /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf and "tada" it didn't 
> complain anymore. Well actually the info bubbles where gone too... seems like 
> KDE is not aware anymore of the bluetooth status.
> 
> Anyway, here are some relevant informations
> 
> root@coin:/# lsmod | grep blue
> bluetooth              43012  24 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
> 
> root@coin:/# dmesg | grep usb
> [4313920.766000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 21
> 
> 
> root     10506  0.0  0.1   1920   820 ?        Ss   17:59   0:00 hcid: 
> processing events
> root     26060  0.0  0.1   1612   544 ?        Ss   16:35   
> 0:00 /usr/sbin/sdpd
> 
> root@coin:/# lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 021: ID 413c:8103 Dell Computer Corp.
> 
> root@coin:/# hcitool dev
> Devices:
>         hci0    00:10:C6:64:69:6B
> 
> root@coin:/# hciconfig -a
> hci0:   Type: USB
>         BD Address: 00:10:C6:64:69:6B ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
>         UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
>         RX bytes:6478 acl:0 sco:0 events:722 errors:0
>         TX bytes:3721 acl:0 sco:0 commands:132 errors:0
>         Features: 0xff 0xff 0x9f 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80
>         Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
>         Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
>         Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
>         Name: 'Bluetooth coin-0'
>         Class: 0x000100
>         Service Classes: Unspecified
>         Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
>         HCI Ver: 1.2 (0x2) HCI Rev: 0x679 LMP Ver: 1.2 (0x2) LMP Subver: 0x679
>         Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
> 
> Now  everything looks right to me... unfortunately "hcitool scan" doesn't see 
> my motorola, which is in discoverable mode using the "find me" option... 
> similarly my motorola doesn't see my computer... also I liked the kde info 
> bubble. 

use "hcidump -X -V" as root to check what is going on while executing
hcitool or any other application.

Regards

Marcel




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