Re: [gentoo-user] more bluetooth troubles with 5.14

Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 13:05:10 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > I don't even have any /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf.
>
> What do you have in your /etc/conf.d/bluetooth?  This is mine:
> =============================
> # Bluetooth configuraton file
>
> # Bind rfcomm devices (allowed values are "true" and "false")
> RFCOMM_ENABLE=true
>
> # Config file for rfcomm
> RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf"
> =============================
>
> Also, /etc/init.d/bluetooth has a dependency on rfcomm, so it starts it first.
>
> I need rfcomm for tethering, but I don't know if it is necessary for your
> needs.  Is your rfcomm running?
>
>
> > I did pair, trust and
> > connect with bluetoothctl.  Are you using bluetooth5 -- I never had
> > these problems till the upgrade to 5.  The device is pretty close to the
> > computer and it does show up on the scan from hcitool.
>
> No, my bluetooth devices are rather ancient, so I don't know if my set up
> would work with blutooth 5.0 and in any case I don't seem to have
> bluetoothctl.  Which program provides it now?  I can't fine bluez-utils in
> portage.

I think they may have changed things, in bluetooth 4, I think there was
a separate package, now all seems to be in bluez package.  Maybe hcidump
is still separate.
If you have bluez 4, the agent is simple-agent and would not work on 5
-- they changed the apis.


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