Bluetooth dongle not working on FC3

cathodion · #1 28th January 2005, 03:51 PM

Hey folks,

Ik got a problem with my bluetooth dongle. gnome-bluetooth-manager doesn't show any devices, and when i press "scan" it scans forever without finding my S55. (yes, it has bluetooth enabled, and discoverable).

dmesg says this:

Code:

Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: wakeup
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.7
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.4
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.3
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized

lsusb shows this:

Code:

 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1005:b113 Apacer Technology, Inc. Handy Steno 2.0 (256MB)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

usbview shows the USB stick but not the dongle.

I really don't have a clue what's wrong here. I read a lot of stuff from people were bluetooth worked just out of the box.

I hope you guys can help.

CathodioN.

cscheng · #2 28th January 2005, 10:00 PM

Make sure you have bluetooth started. There is graphical way to do this, I think it's called 'Services'. You can also issue the following command:

Code:

/etc/init.d/bluetooth start

kaushalhk · #3 19th March 2005, 03:54 AM

The bluetooth dongle which I have bought hasn't got any drivers for Linux.I only want to know that Do I need bluetooth drivers for Fedora core 3 ? If yes from where to get them? Kindly help me out.

sronald · #4 21st March 2005, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cscheng

Make sure you have bluetooth started. There is graphical way to do this, I think it's called 'Services'. You can also issue the following command:

Code:

/etc/init.d/bluetooth start

Gotcha! Is That!!!
Thank you very much!

HalJordan · #5 30th March 2007, 09:08 PM

No. Linux has built in drivers for that. Just run the service start command from cscheng and you will be just fine.
Then just connect the two. i.e. if its a keyboard you're trying to do, type

Code:

hidd --search

and press the connect button on the bottom of the board.
Presto changeo, it just works.