bluetooth faq

bluetooth faq

[Cinaed Simson]

The FAQ on the Wiki appears to indicate that you need to build the
source is a kernel version > 2.6.

However, the build fails on Jessie running kernel version 3.16.51-3
because of no ell.

Not big deal.

I was able to download it and build it but the ell web page suggests I
need the latest kernel version - 4.17 for things to work.

I haven't actually installed ell to see if that was only requirement for
the build which wasn't mentioned in the README.

So am I wasting my time the release from

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git

? I don't mind installing additional packages from source provided it
fixes the known problems with bluetooth.

I am currently using 5.49 from

   https://github.com/Vudentz/BlueZ.git

It doesn't require ell to build.

The following URL

   https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/bluetooth_cryptography_bug/

which is what got me started looking for information and possible fixes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- Cinaed

Re: bluetooth faq

[Stotland, Inga]

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Re: bluetooth faq

[Cinaed Simson]

On 07/31/2018 12:46 PM, Stotland, Inga wrote:
> Hi  Cinaed,
> 
> On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 21:07 -0700, Cinaed Simson wrote:
>> The FAQ on the Wiki appears to indicate that you need to build the
>> source is a kernel version > 2.6.
>>
>> However, the build fails on Jessie running kernel version 3.16.51-3
>> because of no ell.
>>
>> Not big deal.
>>
>> I was able to download it and build it but the ell web page suggests I
>> need the latest kernel version - 4.17 for things to work.
>>
>> I haven't actually installed ell to see if that was only requirement for
>> the build which wasn't mentioned in the README.
>>
>> So am I wasting my time the release from
>>
>>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git
>>
>> ? I don't mind installing additional packages from source provided it
>> fixes the known problems with bluetooth.
>>
>> I am currently using 5.49 from
>>
>>    https://github.com/Vudentz/BlueZ.git
>>
>> It doesn't require ell to build.
>>
>> The following URL
>>
>>    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/bluetooth_cryptography_bug/
>>
>> which is what got me started looking for information and possible fixes.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> -- Cinaed
>>
> 
> If you want to leave out the requirement for ell, you can run
> bootstrap-configure with --enable-mesh=no option. Alternatively, you
> can remove line "--enable-mesh" in your bootstrap-configure file
> altogether.
> 
> Regards,
> Inga
> 

Hi Inga - thanks for the reply. I misinterpreted what I read on the ell
web page.

I was able to build ell and the git version of bluez.

-- Cinaed