[gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Robin Atwood]

I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0 
and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop it was 
running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries have changed 
substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE 
dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for 
/etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by.

TIA
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

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 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[James Broadhead]

On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0
> and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop it was
> running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries have changed
> substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE
> dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for
> /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by.
>
> TIA
> -Robin

Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working
without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by
- Building the appropriate communications-types modules
- Starting the bluetooth init script
- Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to connect/disconnect

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Mick]

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On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote:
> On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE
> > 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop
> > it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries
> > have changed substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works
> > fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any
> > recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by.
> > 
> > TIA
> > -Robin
> 
> Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working
> without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by
> - Building the appropriate communications-types modules
> - Starting the bluetooth init script
> - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to
> connect/disconnect

I'm using net-wireless/bluedevil-1.2.2 and I do not have any such problems.  
However, I'm not using the whole KDE desktop and I'm still on KDEPIM 4.4.11.1
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Juan Diego Tascón]

I have never been able to pair in a2dp mode and pulseaudio with either
kdebluetooth nor gnome bluetooth, only blueman seems to be doing a
good job for that

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote:
>> On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE
>> > 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop
>> > it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries
>> > have changed substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works
>> > fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any
>> > recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by.
>> >
>> > TIA
>> > -Robin
>>
>> Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working
>> without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by
>> - Building the appropriate communications-types modules
>> - Starting the bluetooth init script
>> - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to
>> connect/disconnect
>
> I'm using net-wireless/bluedevil-1.2.2 and I do not have any such problems.
> However, I'm not using the whole KDE desktop and I'm still on KDEPIM 4.4.11.1
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

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El 24/02/2012 09:31, "Juan Diego Tascón" <juantascon@gmail.com> escribió:
>
> I have never been able to pair in a2dp mode and pulseaudio with either
> kdebluetooth nor gnome bluetooth, only blueman seems to be doing a
> good job for that

In GNOME (both 2 and 3), you just add the bluetooth headset, and in the
sound settings you choose A2DP. That's all. I have never touched the config
files under /etc/bluetooth.

Regards.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Mick]

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On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote:
> > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> 
wrote:
> > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE
> > > 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the
> > > laptop it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ
> > > libraries have changed substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool
> > > inq' works fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there searching
> > > endlessly. Any recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit
> > > hard to come by.
> > > 
> > > TIA
> > > -Robin
> > 
> > Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working
> > without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by
> > - Building the appropriate communications-types modules
> > - Starting the bluetooth init script
> > - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to
> > connect/disconnect
> 
> I'm using net-wireless/bluedevil-1.2.2 and I do not have any such problems.
> However, I'm not using the whole KDE desktop and I'm still on KDEPIM
> 4.4.11.1

I had a go at browsing the filesystem on my Blackberry.  It won't work.

obexftp fails in each case to list the contents on the BB internal flash.  When 
looking under Known Devices on the Bluedevil applet on the desktop, it says:

"No supported services found"

which make me think that the way this BB is set up, it won't share its fs with 
a PC.

if your run:

# sdptool browse <your_device_MAC_address>

it will list a number of services that the device supports after you connect 
it to your PC.

Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was able to 
send and receive files using obex push.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Robin Atwood]

On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote:
> > > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
> 
> wrote:
> > > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running
> > > > KDE 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up
> > > > the laptop it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The
> > > > BlueZ libraries have changed substantially since, I think. Using
> > > > 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there
> > > > searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*?
> > > > Doc is a bit hard to come by.
> > > > 
> > > > TIA
> > > > -Robin
> > > 
> > > Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working
> > > without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by
> > > - Building the appropriate communications-types modules
> > > - Starting the bluetooth init script
> > > - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to
> > > connect/disconnect
> > 
> > I'm using net-wireless/bluedevil-1.2.2 and I do not have any such
> > problems. However, I'm not using the whole KDE desktop and I'm still on
> > KDEPIM 4.4.11.1
> 
> I had a go at browsing the filesystem on my Blackberry.  It won't work.
> 
> obexftp fails in each case to list the contents on the BB internal flash. 
> When looking under Known Devices on the Bluedevil applet on the desktop,
> it says:
> 
> "No supported services found"
> 
> which make me think that the way this BB is set up, it won't share its fs
> with a PC.
> 
> if your run:
> 
> # sdptool browse <your_device_MAC_address>
> 
> it will list a number of services that the device supports after you
> connect it to your PC.
> 
> Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was able
> to send and receive files using obex push.

I tried the browse but got "Protocol not supported". :(

-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Mick]

On 26 February 2012 15:12, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote:

>> if your run:
>>
>> # sdptool browse <your_device_MAC_address>
>>
>> it will list a number of services that the device supports after you
>> connect it to your PC.
>>
>> Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was able
>> to send and receive files using obex push.
>
> I tried the browse but got "Protocol not supported". :(

Hmm ... odd!

Have you compiled all the necessary BT drivers in your kernel/as
modules?  Are they loaded?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Robin Atwood]

On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Mick wrote:
> On 26 February 2012 15:12, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote:
> >> if your run:
> >> 
> >> # sdptool browse <your_device_MAC_address>
> >> 
> >> it will list a number of services that the device supports after you
> >> connect it to your PC.
> >> 
> >> Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was
> >> able to send and receive files using obex push.
> > 
> > I tried the browse but got "Protocol not supported". :(
> 
> Hmm ... odd!
> 
> Have you compiled all the necessary BT drivers in your kernel/as
> modules?  Are they loaded?

I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from 
release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it 
looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of 
options were no longer checked. Fixed that and now bluetooth works: I can 
transfer files and browse the phones storage. 

Thanks for giving me a nudge. :)
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[James Broadhead]

On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from
> release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it
> looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of
> options were no longer checked. Fixed that and now bluetooth works: I can
> transfer files and browse the phones storage.
>
> Thanks for giving me a nudge. :)

Are you aware of "make oldconfig", which will interactively walk you
through the changes to the config layout?

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

[Robin Atwood]

On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012, James Broadhead wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from
> > release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo,
> > it looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots
> > of options were no longer checked. Fixed that and now bluetooth works: I
> > can transfer files and browse the phones storage.
> > 
> > Thanks for giving me a nudge. :)
> 
> Are you aware of "make oldconfig", which will interactively walk you
> through the changes to the config layout?

Of course, but I am lazy and usually you get away with it. ;)

-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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