Bluetooth on 11.1 ?

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OK - I’ve searched this forum for quite some time now and cannot find a procedure to install and or startup bluetooth. I just find fragments in answers to other questions that don’t even relate to my situation.

The final blow was

“It’s simple to GET bluetooth for your computer…cost
me $14 from NewEgg over a year ago…just a simple
USB/Bluetooth adapter is all that is needed.”

e.g.:
Newegg.com - TRENDnet TBW-105UB USB 2.0 Compact Bluetooth Adapter - Network - Bluetooth"

Well - I have the TBW-106UB inserted in the USB port and nothing happens so there MUST be something more. Problem is just what do I install ? How do I run it ?

I want to transfer files from either of my two Ericsson phones…

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Have a look here:
HCL/Bluetooth Adapters - openSUSE

3

Hi
Is the device recognized? From the command line run the following
commands;


lsusb |grep Blue
dmesg |grep Blue

From the first command, you should see something like


Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2
Bluetooth

and from the second


    9.650121] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
    9.718014] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
    9.718026] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
    9.725243] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.5
   25.695880] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.13
   25.695890] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
   25.914767] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
   25.914794] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
   25.914803] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
   26.319633] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
   26.319645] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
   27.006934] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
   27.006944] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
   33.047406] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2

Also check the bluetooth service is running (should say on)


sudo /sbin/chkconfig bluetooth-coldplug

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4-default
up 1 day 14:20, 6 users, load average: 0.59, 0.50, 0.33
CPU VIA Esther processor 1000MHz GPU VIA CX700/VX700

4

Thank you both for the replies.

Neither LSUSB or DMESG provide a reply (interesting) but

sudo /sbin/chkconfig bluetooth-coldplug
bluetooth-coldplug on

Does this mean the device isn’t compatible with 11.1 ?

5

Hi
What happens if you unplug it then plug it back in and re-run the
commands, also try a different usb port.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1-default
up 1 day 6:59, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.46, 0.27
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 185.18.14

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I’ve already tried that with no changes in results. The device IS recognized by Vista, (and the USB ports DO work), so I’m assuming it isn’t defective.

7

What are the exact messages you are getting when you plug it in?

tail -f /var/log/messages
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There doesn’t seem to be any awareness of it’s existence…

tail -f /var/log/messages
Jun 11 05:56:18 linux-3kun nm-dispatcher.action: Script ‘/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/nfs’ exited with error status 6.
Jun 11 05:56:18 linux-3kun dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 11 matched rules; type=“method_return”, sender=":1.20" (uid=0 pid=3291 comm="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dispatcher.action “) interface=”(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.8" (uid=0 pid=2799 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager "))
Jun 11 05:56:21 linux-3kun kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jun 11 05:56:21 linux-3kun kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Jun 11 05:56:21 linux-3kun kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
Jun 11 05:56:21 linux-3kun kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 11 05:56:21 linux-3kun hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 1000
Jun 11 05:56:22 linux-3kun gnome-session[2890]: WARNING: Application ‘libcanberra-login-sound.desktop’ failed to register before timeout
Jun 11 05:56:22 linux-3kun pulseaudio[3667]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Jun 11 06:17:49 linux-3kun su: (to root) stan on /dev/pts/1

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That is very strange. I have seen such devices but they were externally powered USB devices. That can be brought in by powering down and up again.
But, this case is very strange.

10

I did a reset, but not a power on reset.

Perhaps time to fire off an inquiry to Trendnet.

11

Oh no, I was not referring to power down/up the computer. Externally powered USB devices can be powered down/up independently. Some of those devices send signals to their USB interface only while powering up. I have a USB hard drive like that.

I think you should contact Trendnet.

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I have started a dialog with Trendnet. Thanks for your reply.