Re: The link I had working quit. Help

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Saturday 04 April 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings all;
>
>I had minicom working fine till I reset the passkey on both devices, and now
>minicom says there is no /dev/rfcomm0 when there really is.
>
>The init script I use here now reads:
>----------------------------------
>#!/bin/bash
>echo attempting to get bt link to the coco3
>hcitool -i hci0 11:11:11:11:11:11 key 4391
>rfcomm release hci0
>rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 bind hci0 00:0c:84:00:86:F8
>echo this should show the cocos address
>rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 show hci0
>------------------------------------
>and returns:
>[root@coyote sysconfig]# connect2coco3
>
>attempting to get bt link to the coco3
>this should show the cocos address
>rfcomm0: 11:11:11:11:11:11 -> 00:0C:84:00:86:F8 channel 1 clean
>
>But minicom now says /dev/rfcomm0 doesn't exist, or after a couple of
> minutes: -------------------------------
>[root@coyote system.d]# minicom
>minicom: cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: Host is down
>-----------------------------
>
>but it does exist:
>[root@coyote sysconfig]# ls -l /dev/rfc*
>crw------- 1 root root 216, 0 2009-04-04 16:20 /dev/rfcomm0
>
>I am assuming that 'key' here is equal to 'passkey' on the other device.
>Is that assumption wrong?
>
>I'm also assuming that a short powerdown for the eb101 device at the other
> end will restore it to link mode after I quit the comm proggy on that
> machine, which probably puts the eb101 into the command mode with a +++
> pause ATH.  I can train that program not to do that I think.

I also set it to the other option of dropping the dtr, either way seems to 
leave the device dead.

>So, which end do I beat on here?, I'm getting lost in the forest, too many
>trees.
>
>Thank you all.

Ping! :)  I'm still dead in the water here.

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