Re: [Bluez-users] hcitool bug

[Pete Stevens <pete@ex-parrot.com>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Stefan Behlert wrote:

> On Feb 23, 05 15:41:45 +0000, Pete Stevens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This confuses me, can anyone explain why I get this?
> >
> > [root@pstevens bluetooth-pc-tag]# hcitool dev
> > Devices:
> >         hci0    00:0C:76:47:6A:94
> >
> > [root@pstevens bluetooth-pc-tag]# hcitool -i 00:0C:76:47:6A:94 info
> > 00:0E:6D:13:D8:74
> > Requesting information ...
> > Get connection info failed: No such file or directory
>
> >
> > [root@pstevens bluetooth-pc-tag]# hcitool info 00:0E:6D:13:D8:74
> > Requesting information ...
> >         BD Address:  00:0E:6D:13:D8:74
>
> Nice. With version 2.15 this fails with me. Do you have more than one
> Bluetooth dongle in your computer?
> [...]

At present I only have one, sometimes I have more than that.

> I think it has to fail, because '-i <dev>' explicitly says "send it out
> using this interface" and only affects remote devices. I don't think you
> should be able to ask local devices for information in this way. But I may
> be wrong.

I was under the impression I was using local device 00:0C:76:47:6A:94 to query
the remote device 00:0E:6D:13:D8:74, when I believe should succeed.

For what it's worth, it also fails if I address the device as hci0.

Pete

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