Bluetooth on Fedora
I recently bought a new cell phone, the Nokia 6822.
I tried to connect my cell phone with my laptop. I first succeeded sending files from my laptop to my phone with bluetooth, sending files from my phone to the laptop also worked without any problems.
When I tried to browse my phone with my laptop, it didn’t work. It makes connection, my phone asks permission and the pairing code but then the connection is closed.
Google brought me to this bugreport of redhat: Bug 160676 – dbus_pin_helper crashes hcid. In that bugreport is a little workaround, commenting out dbus_pin_helper.
I tried it.. and it worked. The pin_helper section of my /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf is now:
# PIN helper pin_helper /usr/lib/kdebluetooth/kbluepin; # D-Bus PIN helper #dbus_pin_helper;
I can now browse my phone from my laptop, also using gnokii now works
June 11th, 2006
Actually this workaround is quite widespread but there is also another trick. Without it BT pairing did not work for me. In the /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf I had to uncomment next two paremeters:
device {
....
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}
October 9th, 2006
Hi,
I have bought a Bluetooth USB dongle and thinking of using it to connect to my cellular phone.
Could you please tell me how to start this whole process ? (pairing, connecting … etc)
regards,
winston
October 11th, 2006
Winston, I can’t give you a “how to use bluetooth with linux” manual, but I guess you can find some on the internet.
You first have to learn the process of connecting and pairing, you can easily try this with 2 bluetooth phones.
Once that works, you can configure your pc to use bluetooth. Starting with installing the bluetooth packages. Once you have these packages installed you can see which files and daemons are provided. These daemons needs the correct configuration, trial and error is one way to accomplish that job.
I hope this gets you started with your bluetooth USB dongle.
October 19th, 2006
Thanks for this !! my pairing work well know !!!
but when i try to upload a file greater than 192 ko from my pc to the mobile every files;the upload crash /
the message is :
QObexTransport::QObexTransport( … )
QObexTransport::slotReset()
QObexTransport::setBlocking( 1 )
QObexTransport::setBlocking( 1 )
QObexClient::QObexClient( … )
QObexClient::connectClient()
QObexClient::sendRequest( … )
QObexTransport::setBlocking( 1 )
QObexTransport::error( … )
QObexClient::transportError( … )
QObexClient::makeIdle()
QObexClient::~QObexClient()
QObexTransport::~QObexTransport()
QObexClient::~QObexClient()
QObexTransport::~QObexTransport()
QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
for smaller files no problem the upload works fine i think there is an overlow trouble .
my phone is a sony-ericsson K750i ,i’m under linus aurox 12 (fedoracore 5)
Thanks for your answer
Loic
October 9th, 2007
hello ,
i am srinivas. i am have installed frdora 7on my laptop . i have a problem in using bluetooth of my phone as wel as of my laptop in fedora 7 os .after i on both phone device and laptop device .i am not able u searching either by phone nor my laptop who can i slove this problem.
November 14th, 2007
[...] It is just that easy… That’s really something different than a couple of fedora releases ago. [...]
February 3rd, 2008
hello…
My dekstop use dual boot. they are windows and fedora core-5. In windows bluetooth is connected but in fedora device not found.
Can u plain to me why bluetooth in fedora core-5 doesnt work. I use USB bluetooth dongle class 2 ( 10 m).
Is not only bluetooh but flas disk is not detected too in FC_5.
Now I must have connection one computer with other use Bluetooth (PAN). How i can do if bluetooth is not connected?
Thanks
QtiN
March 24th, 2008
does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?