bluetooth not working

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I have a bluetooth usb dongle which I cannot get to work.
I start kbluetooth. The icon in system tray is blue (not grey).
Right click on it -> Device Manager -> New
The wizard starts. It sees my Palm, but then says: “Sorry your Bluetooth Device does not support input Service”
I don’t know what to do. Any idea?

Opensuse 11.3 kde 4.5
kbluetooth 0.4.2-10.5

2

Hi
If you open a Konsole session and run;


hcitool scan

Is the device visible?

3

It is.
I have seen that I can send files from the computer to the Palm. But not from the Palm to the computer.
I also want to be able to sync via bluetooth if possible.
Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

4

Hi
So are you actually connecting then? Can you post the output from;


hcitool con <MAC_ADDR_FROM_SCAN>
hcitool inq
hcitool info

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.24-0.2-default
up 5 days 4:17, 3 users, load average: 0.37, 0.23, 0.15
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Yes. Now I can even send files both ways. But I cannot sync. Also, kbluetooth still says “Sorry your Bluetooth Device does not support input Service”. I don’t know whether this is normal with a Palm or not. These are my first experiences with bluetoth.

Can you post the output from;

hcitool con <MAC_ADDR_FROM_SCAN>
hcitool inq
hcitool info

Here it is:

wrbbt:~> hcitool con 00:07:E0:3C:83:85
Connections:

wrbbt:~> hcitool inq
Inquiring ...                                                                                   
        00:07:E0:3C:83:85       clock offset: 0x201a    class: 0x100114

wrbbt:~> hcitool info
Usage:                                                                                          
        info <bdaddr>

I don’t know what the bdaddr is.

Thanks again for your help.

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Hi
The <bdaddr> is the <MAC_ADDR_FROM_SCAN>indicated above :wink:

You should be able to use OpenSync with libopensync-plugin-palm to
sync, I use Gnome (and a blackberry)but there must be some KDE centric
apps.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.24-0.2-default
up 5 days 19:44, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.04
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.29

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Hi
You could try kitchensync, maybe this one;
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mobile:/synchronization:/FACTORY/openSUSE_11.3/

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.24-0.2-default
up 5 days 19:53, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.09
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.29

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Thanks a lot, malcolm. Very kind of you. I’ll try what you say.

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I have installed kitchensync. I have some doubts.
Mainly, what is the port I have to use. Configuring the connection I have to indicate the port; I don’t know what it is.
Can you help me in this? (You said that you use gnome and blackberry).

Just to try, I configured a bluetooth hotsync with a Windows XP I use in Virtual box. I had to create a serial port before syncing. I don’t know if I have to do something similar in Linux and how to do it.