Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bluez 5 not connecting

[William Kenworthy]

On 29/05/14 18:18, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2014 07:27:24 Mick wrote:
>> On Thursday 29 May 2014 00:05:16 William Kenworthy wrote:
>>> On 29/05/14 06:28, Mick wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 28 May 2014 20:02:29 Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>>> On 28/05/14 21:42, Mick wrote:
>>>>>> Hmm ... am I alone in this quest?
>>>>>
>>>>> See here, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505362
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!  I missed this bug when I glanced earlier.  However, it does
>>>> not mention rfcomm is now missing, or the fact that the gentoo rc
>>>> script fails to initialise bluethooth and complains about rfcomm
>>>> service not having started/exist, or that bluetoothctl now does not
>>>> work at all.  Is all this down to a missing udev rule?
>>>
>>> No its the fact that bluez 5 has been redesigned to fit in more with the
>>> systemd world.
>>

I am not using systemd either - there is no bluetoothctl service (its an
application and written with no remote control capabilities - why?: no
idea - in my reading I came across a message saying that its designed
for use with systemd but I thought it would still need the remote option
unless bluetoothctl like functions are natively included in systemd)

You will probably have to load the modules manually
(/etc/conf.d/modules) - mine do load automatically though

moriah ~ # lsmod|grep bt
btusb                  14099  0
bluetooth             191573  24 bnep,btusb,rfcomm
usbcore               132770  10
btusb,usblp,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbserial,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid,ftdi_sio,cdc_acm
moriah ~ #

Sounds like you have more than one problem and you need to get the
modules loaded and working first, then you can run bluetoothctl manually.

BillK