openSUSE 12.3 64bit KDE
Gigabyte GC-WB150 wi-fi and Bluetooth card
I was given my first cell phone, a used Nokia 2630, and installed the above card. YaST recognized it, installed “iw”. I then restarted Network Manager and a Bluetooth symbol popped up in my KDE panel. It shows that “discoverable” is turned on. I turned the cell phone on and enabled Bluetooth on it. But when my computer Bluetooth scans for a signal none shows, and the same from the cell phone.
Is there a guide I can follow to solve my problem?
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:46:03 +0000, ionmich wrote:
> openSUSE 12.3 64bit KDE Gigabyte GC-WB150 wi-fi and Bluetooth card
>
> I was given my first cell phone, a used Nokia 2630, and installed the
> above card. YaST recognized it, installed “iw”. I then restarted Network
> Manager and a Bluetooth symbol popped up in my KDE panel. It shows that
> “discoverable” is turned on. I turned the cell phone on and enabled
> Bluetooth on it. But when my computer Bluetooth scans for a signal none
> shows, and the same from the cell phone.
>
> Is there a guide I can follow to solve my problem?
Typically you need to set the phone to be “discoverable” - check the
manual for the phone on how to do that. If you don’t set it to be
discoverable, then it can’t be seen by devices looking to pair with it.
> I turned the cell phone on and enabled
> Bluetooth on it. But when my computer Bluetooth scans for a signal none
> shows, and the same from the cell phone.
You have to tell the phone to remain visible for a while.
> Is there a guide I can follow to solve my problem?
Dunno :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
In my cell phone menu under the “Bluetooth” menu item, “My phone’s visibility” is set to “Shown to all” so I assume it is broadcasting. Likewise my Bluetooth icon in the KDE panel shows “Discoverable” as being set to “on”. The normal wi-fi signal on the Gigabyte card functions in both directions as I can connect to the Internet via my router. Unfortunately I do not own another Bluetooth device to confirm that Bluetooth is functioning on the card.
Since you’re a KDE user, do you have ‘bluedevil’ installed? FWIW, I’ve found bluetooth connectivity to mobile phones of very limited value. At most I could view a few files and send in one-direction IIRC.
Anyway, with bluedevil installed, you could try connecting with the ‘bluedevil-wizard’.
On 2013-09-14 01:16, deano ferrari wrote:
>
> Since you’re a KDE user, do you have ‘bluedevil’ installed? FWIW, I’ve
> found bluetooth connectivity to mobile phones of very limited value. At
> most I could view a few files and send in one-direction IIRC.
It is flaky. It works with some devices, then doesn’t work with some
other. Or it stops working on the next openSUSE version.
When it works, although slowly, I found bluetooth easier for
transferring files than the usb cable.
> Anyway, with bluedevil installed, you could try connecting with the
> ‘bluedevil-wizard’.
And if that refuses to work, you could try gnome - it is a different
stack. I’m not saying to switch to gnome completely, only for this task.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-09-14 01:16, deano ferrari wrote:
>>
>> Since you’re a KDE user, do you have ‘bluedevil’ installed? FWIW, I’ve
>> found bluetooth connectivity to mobile phones of very limited value. At
>> most I could view a few files and send in one-direction IIRC.
>
> It is flaky. It works with some devices, then doesn’t work with some
> other. Or it stops working on the next openSUSE version.
>
> When it works, although slowly, I found bluetooth easier for
> transferring files than the usb cable.
>
>> Anyway, with bluedevil installed, you could try connecting with the
>> ‘bluedevil-wizard’.
>
> And if that refuses to work, you could try gnome - it is a different
> stack. I’m not saying to switch to gnome completely, only for this task.
>
Talking about GNOME bluetooth:-
Bluetooth does work on openSUSE 12.2 well but not too well on openSUSE
12.3. I cannot browse phone content using file manager but can send
stuff(images,mp3) to phone and send sms using “GNOME phone manager”.
But Phone to PC broken. PC to phone works on 12.3. Whereas on 12.2
communication worked well in both directions.
Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. Yes bluedevil is installed and produces the same connection screen as the KDE Bluetooth icon “add device” choice.
I installed gnome-bluetooth and invoked bluetooth-wizard. It reported “** (bluetooth-wizard:1747): CRITICAL **: atk_bridge_adaptor_cleanup: assertion `inited’ failed”. I have no idea what this means.
The main reason I have refused to carry a cell phone until now is the tedious task of entering all my phone numbers with the ridiculous 9 key alphabet system. Hours of needless work (and multiple errors) when I have all the numbers and names in a variety of databases and spreadsheets that can be converted to whatever method the phone uses.
The main reason I have refused to carry a cell phone until now is the tedious task of entering all my phone numbers with the ridiculous 9 key alphabet system. Hours of needless work (and multiple errors) when I have all the numbers and names in a variety of databases and spreadsheets that can be converted to whatever method the phone uses.
I hear you regarding this. It can be a real pain. Do you have internet/emailconnectivity with this phone? If so it should be possible to export your contacts as vcf files and import into phone via email. I did the reverse when migrating from Nokia to iPhone, then importing to the iPhone.
On 2013-09-14 04:43, vazhavandan wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Talking about GNOME bluetooth:-
> Bluetooth does work on openSUSE 12.2 well but not too well on openSUSE
> 12.3. I cannot browse phone content using file manager but can send
> stuff(images,mp3) to phone and send sms using “GNOME phone manager”.
In my case, it failed on 12.1 and worked on 12.3.
On the other hand, no problem with new samsung android and BT in 12.3
As I said, flaky. No, that’s not the word I want… volatile. A mind of
its own
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2013-09-14 07:56, ionmich wrote:
>
> Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. Yes bluedevil is installed and
> produces the same connection screen as the KDE Bluetooth icon “add
> device” choice.
>
> I installed gnome-bluetooth and invoked bluetooth-wizard. It reported
> “** (bluetooth-wizard:1747): CRITICAL **: atk_bridge_adaptor_cleanup:
> assertion `inited’ failed”. I have no idea what this means.
Could be the reason that kde fails, too.
> The main reason I have refused to carry a cell phone until now is the
> tedious task of entering all my phone numbers with the ridiculous 9 key
> alphabet system. Hours of needless work (and multiple errors) when I
> have all the numbers and names in a variety of databases and
> spreadsheets that can be converted to whatever method the phone uses.
Paper. Key in the numbers, old fashion style, each time you call some
one :-}
(some people do)
Seriously: that’s one of the reasons I keep Windows on my laptop, to
communicate the cell phone with the computer and backup the phone list.
Nokia has an acceptably good software, Windows only, for that task.
Yes, I hate them for not creating a Linux program. Life is hard sometimes.
I eat my pride and use Windows.
(if you are going to tell me that there is Linux software for that task,
forget it. It failed miserably. If you prefer, with some models they
work, with some other they fail)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
