Stefan Magdalinski wrote:
> 
> Right, now I have my dialup working beautifully, the next stage is 
> getting my Palm connecting to the laptop so that hopefully I can sync 
> with evolution.
> 

I'm still getting absolutely nowhere with this. It just gets to 'signing 
on' on the palm, and then hangs.

weird thing is there's tons of traffic flowing, according to hcidump -X -V

I've attached some output in case it's useful.

many thanks for any clues

stef

> I've been following the instructions from
> 
> http://www.harbaum.org/till/palm/bluetooth/index.html
> 
> (from Marcel's bluetooth HOWTO list)
> 
> I can see the clie fine:
> 
> stefvaio:/etc/ppp# hcitool scan
> Scanning ...
>         08:00:46:EF:4B:F4       stefclie
>         00:12:62:DC:EA:63       Stefphone
> 
> I have successfully added the pc as a trusted device, sdpd is running, 
> and I've added the LAN service, as per the HOWTO
> 
> The clie networking all appears to be set up OK, but when I try and 
> connect,
> 
> it says 'initializing', then 'signing on', but then hangs there. at this 
> point, hcidump -X -V shows a continuous stream of ongoing traffic, but 
> the signing on never finishes.
> 
> /var/log/messages says
> 
> May 10 17:08:18 localhost pppd[16725]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
> May 10 17:08:18 localhost pppd[16725]: Using interface ppp0
> May 10 17:08:18 localhost pppd[16725]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/rfcomm1
> 
> and then when I cancel the connection on the Clie
> 
> May 10 17:09:23 localhost pppd[16725]: LCP terminated by peer
> May 10 17:09:23 localhost pppd[16725]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> May 10 17:09:23 localhost pppd[16725]: Modem hangup
> May 10 17:09:23 localhost pppd[16725]: Connection terminated.
> May 10 17:09:24 localhost pppd[16725]: Exit.
> 
> 
> I can't see an rfcommd running anywhere though, only a krfcommd, are 
> they the same thing?
> 
> ps aux |grep rfcommd
> root      8627  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?  S<   May09   0:00 [krfcommd]
> 
> Any other information I need to provide?
> 
> actually looking in more detail,
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.user/5568/match=rfcommd
> 
> says that rfcommd is not used any more, but not what is, so I'm stuck.
> 
> stef
> 


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