how to setup bluetooth

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#1

good evening :slight_smile:

quite self-explanatory thread: i have the hp integrated module for bluetooth, and the bluez package installed, but the only way i discovered to activate it is from konsole, with some issues:

1-how can i start the bluetooth by graphical way?

2-kbluetooth4 says my device don’t have a input support, so i can’t connect them unless i try to send something notebook>device (the otherwise isn’t allowed)

3-since i have full functionality at w7, how can i setup bluetooth beyond these problems to achieve the same?

thanks in advance :slight_smile:

#2

Once you start kbluetooth and so long as the wireless switch is ON, bluetooth should start every time. If it’s functional, the tray icon will be blue (not greyed out).

#3

yes, i see it now

but when i try to search my phone, it gives a message that my bluetooth device doesn’t support input service…and the phone gives the message no device found: they can’t see each other, only if i send something from the notebook to the phone, file by file

is there a way to fix this?

#4

Your experiences with bluetooth connectivity resemble mine. A lot has to do with the phone in question. I was only ever able to do basic file transfers with this interface.

3-since i have full functionality at w7, how can i setup bluetooth beyond these problems to achieve the same?

Forget matching windows functionality for the immediate future. Phone vendors need to start providing the necessary proprietary support for stuff like email and contacts syncing…

FWIW, here’s a few interesting accounts:

Using a Bluetooth phone with Linux

Linux.com :: CLI Magic: Access your Bluetooth phone via the command line

Bluetooth, a Cell Phone and a Netbook | Linux.com

#5

I do know mine just works and it doesn’t seem to matter what the phone is. Unfortunately I know little about the setting up. When things just work it spoils the learning process.

#6

got the bluetooth to work with basic one-on-one file transfer (which can take hours)

i installed and tested gnokii and bluez-alsa, unsuceffuly

the link names a bluez-utils package, i cannot found it on yast

i would like to use the notebook as speakerphones, answer the calls from the notebook and transfer complete music folders instead of one file per time but didn’t found this functions working neither on sony ericsson w300i or nokia 5130, that have their softwares released only for win

#7

I do know mine just works and it doesn’t seem to matter what the phone is. Unfortunately I know little about the setting up. When things just work it spoils the learning process.

@Carl: I’ve had no problems with file transfer. Are you saying that you get other functionality (as the OP is describing?

I searched fro bluez-utils package via webpin search, but only found it for openSUSE 11.0, 11.2, not 11.2.

#8

I have only used it for file transfers. I don’t have the ancillary equipment for anything more glamorous.

#9

I have experienced problems with KBluetooth reporting “Input service not supported”.

I think the trick is to initiate pairing from the audio device and not to search for it from the computer. For multiple file transfers kbluetooth-0.4 or later is required (although it would be nice to have 0.4.2 because of a few related crashers it fixes).