From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B4A1381FA for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 22:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95229E096C; Thu, 29 May 2014 22:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.226]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC5DE08AF for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 22:33:17 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkgGALG0h1N8qPXs/2dsb2JhbABZgwdSg0OnKAEBAQEBAQaYGAGBDxZ0giUBAQUjVRELDQsCAgUWCwICCQMCAQIBRRMIAQGIPQ6yN6UXF4EqhCuJBBaCX4FLBIogj1WBPYUvKYwUg0UwLw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.98,936,1392134400"; d="scan'208";a="518542633" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.168.245.236]) by icp-osb-irony-out9.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 30 May 2014 06:33:13 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42EE129E for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 06:33:07 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2YMCdSMe0_zR for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 06:32:58 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.3] (moriah [192.168.44.3]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4A15885D for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 06:32:55 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <5387B597.7020303@iinet.net.au> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 06:32:55 +0800 From: William Kenworthy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bluez 5 not connecting References: <53578420.1040604@iinet.net.au> <53866BAC.6070002@iinet.net.au> <201405290727.35118.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201405291118.52418.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201405291118.52418.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9fdff686-f3d1-426d-adca-f4116f51ea26 X-Archives-Hash: a22ecdc045d865cce9d59406af0fd831 On 29/05/14 18:18, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2014 07:27:24 Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 29 May 2014 00:05:16 William Kenworthy wrote: >>> On 29/05/14 06:28, Mick wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 28 May 2014 20:02:29 Samuli Suominen wrote: >>>>> On 28/05/14 21:42, Mick wrote: >>>>>> Hmm ... am I alone in this quest? >>>>> >>>>> See here, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505362 >>>> >>>> Thanks! I missed this bug when I glanced earlier. However, it does >>>> not mention rfcomm is now missing, or the fact that the gentoo rc >>>> script fails to initialise bluethooth and complains about rfcomm >>>> service not having started/exist, or that bluetoothctl now does not >>>> work at all. Is all this down to a missing udev rule? >>> >>> No its the fact that bluez 5 has been redesigned to fit in more with the >>> systemd world. >> I am not using systemd either - there is no bluetoothctl service (its an application and written with no remote control capabilities - why?: no idea - in my reading I came across a message saying that its designed for use with systemd but I thought it would still need the remote option unless bluetoothctl like functions are natively included in systemd) You will probably have to load the modules manually (/etc/conf.d/modules) - mine do load automatically though moriah ~ # lsmod|grep bt btusb 14099 0 bluetooth 191573 24 bnep,btusb,rfcomm usbcore 132770 10 btusb,usblp,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbserial,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid,ftdi_sio,cdc_acm moriah ~ # Sounds like you have more than one problem and you need to get the modules loaded and working first, then you can run bluetoothctl manually. BillK