Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf seemingly ignored

[Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>]

Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:28:28PM +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>>> I had my server (running SuSE 10.1) set up as a gateway for my PDA
>>>> following the advice in: 
>>>> http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=bluetoothnetworking
>>>>
>>>> I've just swapped over to SuSE 10.2 which has bluesz 3.7-14 and
>>>> the set up no longer works.
>>>>
>>>> hciconfig says:
>>>>
>>>> hci0:   Type: USB
>>>>          BD Address: 00:09:DD:50:47:BB ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
>>>>          UP RUNNING PSCAN
>>>>          RX bytes:401 acl:0 sco:0 events:18 errors:0
>>>>          TX bytes:317 acl:0 sco:0 commands:17 errors:0
>>>>
>>>> with ISCAN missing, although my hcid.conf file has  "iscan enable".
>>  >
>>> to make this work you need to set discovto to 0, because otherwise hcid
>>> will automatically switch you device into non-discoverable mode to
>>> protect you.
>>>
>>> You can of course install bluez-gnome and use bluetooth-properties to do
>>> this configuration with a shiny UI.
>> I can't get that to work. It seems very flaky. Sometimes I get INQUIRY
>> instead of PSCAN. Other times I get nothing.  I think the SuSE 10.2
>> installation may be messed up.  I've installed it on two computers
>> and had the same problems.
> 
> Hm. It works for me. I have not configured anything via YaST, but just with
> bluetooth-applet and apitest (in the bluez-test package).

I can try that: I still have the original config files I can put back in 
place. Did you not use yast2 even to enable bluetooth?

Cheers,
     Paul.

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