Bluetooth Question

[Dead1nside]

How are you meant to connect to your Bluetooth devices? 'System - > Preferences -> Internet and Network'? When I do that, I can't get any devices. The Bluetooth LED on my laptop's exterior also does not flash. Is there a way to diagnose if my bluetooth module is being correctly detected? It used to be detected and work fine in FC5. Thanks.

[trigpoint]

Never used an internal bluetooth device, but when I plug my USB device in the bluetooth icon appears on the taskbar and it just works.

[Dead1nside]

It used to come up for me when I used the Thinkpad specific wireless radios keyboard shortcut Fn+F5, but now it doesn't do that either. Thanks anyway.

[sideways]

type this in a terminal

hcitool dev

If any bluetooth devices are detected on your machine it will list it as 'hcix' + hardware address. see 'man hcitool' for more info, or just type 'hcitool' on its own for a list of copmmands (you can scan for remote devices using 'hcitool scan'). It is easier to use a gui like the gnome-bluetooth (but for some reason I can only send files in F9, not receive - I need to look into this later)

[Coltie]

Hi, I just installed fedora 9 and got the same issue, however, the command hcitool dev doesnt give any good reply...

I'm also using a thinkpad (T43) and the bluetooth thing was working fine with my old gentoo box.

Any hints?