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.

-- 
Regards,
Mick