Re: [gentoo-user] more bluetooth troubles with 5.14

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 
> On 03/03/14 21:21, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 13:05:10 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> I don't even have any /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf.  
> >> What do you have in your /etc/conf.d/bluetooth?  This is mine:
> >> =============================
> >> # Bluetooth configuraton file
> >>
> >> # Bind rfcomm devices (allowed values are "true" and "false")
> >> RFCOMM_ENABLE=true
> >>
> >> # Config file for rfcomm
> >> RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf"
> >> =============================
> >>
> >> Also, /etc/init.d/bluetooth has a dependency on rfcomm, so it starts it first.
> >>
> >> I need rfcomm for tethering, but I don't know if it is necessary for your 
> >> needs.  Is your rfcomm running?
> >>
> >>
> >>> I did pair, trust and
> >>> connect with bluetoothctl.  Are you using bluetooth5 -- I never had
> >>> these problems till the upgrade to 5.  The device is pretty close to the
> >>> computer and it does show up on the scan from hcitool.
> >> No, my bluetooth devices are rather ancient, so I don't know if my set up 
> >> would work with blutooth 5.0 and in any case I don't seem to have 
> >> bluetoothctl.  Which program provides it now?  I can't fine bluez-utils in 
> >> portage.
> > I think they may have changed things, in bluetooth 4, I think there was
> > a separate package, now all seems to be in bluez package.  Maybe hcidump
> > is still separate.
> > If you have bluez 4, the agent is simple-agent and would not work on 5
> > -- they changed the apis.
> >
> >
> 
> correct, bluez-utils was part of bluez 3

Yep, I have the same conf.d/bluetooth  and  my rfcomm is running.


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