openSUSE 11.1 KDE3 Bluetooth solution

[seld]

Hmm, Actually there seem to be some KDE 4 or bluez updates,
which enable bluetooth without additional repository and packages.

Though, I don’t use KDE 4, so I didn’t test test it (yet).

If you feel like experimenting,
see this bug report:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438956
Or go straight to this comment:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438956#c75

[user]

My bluetooth dosent worked straight away.
Im also using kde 4 and 3.5.
Under 3.5 its working now with
bluez3
bluez3-utils
and kbluetooth4 ???

Well it works, thanks!

Does anybody know how to replace kbluetooth with kbluetooth4 as default and startup?

Ps: i just got a bluetooth mouse for my notebook thats very annoying >:(

[tonrev]

@seld

So for the moment the most reliable method
to fix bluetooth in KDE seems to be the one I mentioned in first post:

1. leave installed bluez packages as is
   and
2. additionally install from Index of /repositories/home:/fietze/openSUSE_11.1
   bluez3
   bluez3-utils
   libbluetooth2

Doing so you can enable bluetooth and pushing files
(sending from device to device) will work.

But I still don’t know how to browse remote files (i.e. on the phone) via bluetooth:
in KDE 3 konqueror none of the appropriate protocols (or kio-slaves?) work:
not bluetooth:/ , nor obex:/ , nor sdp:/.

I’m at this point. I can send files to the phone with the OBEX Object Push Client and I can send files from the phone to the PC. Good job and thanks for the help.

@seld

So I played a little bit more with bluetooth.
I tried to browse/download/write/delete files on Samsung SGH-E760

obex:/ does work in KDE3 konqueror.
Browsing/downloading and even deleting worked fine,
but no uploading via obex:/ kioslave
(this may be Samsung SGH-E760 limitation).

I can’t browse from konqueror. What did you do?

I have the bluetooth icon with the adapter and address fields empty. If I click on the bluetooth icon, konqueror opens with the address “bluetooth:/” and an empty window. Some idea?

[seld]

@tonrev

I’m at this point. I can send files to the phone with the OBEX Object Push Client and I can send files from the phone to the PC. Good job and thanks for the help.

I can’t browse from konqueror. What did you do?

I have the bluetooth icon with the adapter and address fields empty. If I click on the bluetooth icon, konqueror opens with the address “bluetooth:/” and an empty window. Some idea?

At the moment “bluetooth:/” seems to be of no use
and obex protocol syntax seems to be changed.
Still no Bluetooth support in KDE 4 (and in Konqueror 4),
except kdebluetooth4 applet (kbluetooth in my system
doesn’t work any more, so the fix I proposed seems to be deprecated).

Anyway, I tested file browsing again and found
an awkward way to browse files:

1. type from command line

hcitool scan

It should list all visible devices in range and their MAC-addresses.

2. copy MAC-address of the device you need, replace ‘:’ with ‘-’
   and open your phone via obex:// protocol
   in Konqueror 3 (with Konqueror 4 version this doesn’t work).
   For example whole address in konqueror should look like this
   (! notice ‘//’ at the beginning and ‘/’ in the end):

obex://00-11-19-c5-9d-85/

3. The phone I tested connection with (Samsung SGH E760) asked me,
   whether I want to allow browsing phones’ files.
   So you should choose ‘Yes, allow’.
   And, of course, don’t forget to with phones visibility on,
   unless you remember its MAC from memory.
   And I think you can just bookmark the whole address,
   to simplify future browsing.

Viel Spaß!

[tonrev]

@seld

copy MAC-address of the device you need, replace ‘:’ with ‘-’
and open your phone via obex:// protocol
in Konqueror 3

obex://00-11-19-c5-9d-85/

I arrived to this point, but then the phone asks for an access code that I don’t know. I remember changing this code in Opensuse 10.3 bluetooth, but I don’t know how to set it now.

By the way, I didn’t mention in my last post (sorry) but I’m using 11.1 and KDE 3.

Thanks for your help anyway.

[malcolmlewis]

@tonrev

seld;1974547 Wrote:
>
> copy MAC-address of the device you need, replace ‘:’ with ‘-’
> and open your phone via obex:// protocol
> in Konqueror 3 >
Code:

> > obex://00-11-19-c5-9d-85/

> >
>
I arrived to this point, but then the phone asks for an access code
that I don’t know. I remember changing this code in Opensuse 10.3
bluetooth, but I don’t know how to set it now.

By the way, I didn’t mention in my last post (sorry) but I’m using 11.1
and KDE 3.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Hi
You need to use the sdptool browse <baddr> and then the pin tool should
show up which should prompt on the phone first, then enter they same in
the pin tool dialog.

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[seld]

@tonrev

I arrived to this point, but then the phone asks for an access code that I don’t know. I remember changing this code in Opensuse 10.3 bluetooth, but I don’t know how to set it now.

By the way, I didn’t mention in my last post (sorry) but I’m using 11.1 and KDE 3.

Thanks for your help anyway.

I’m using KDE 3 and 11.1 too.
I think you can enter any (or only numbered? - I entered only numbers) code on one device,
and then you should enter just **the same **code on the other.

[tonrev]

Sorry for the delay.

I enter the code on the phone, the problem is that Opensuse don’t ask for the code and so the transfer is cancelled.

[user]

Hi,

1. After update to opensuse 11.1 with kde 3.5 from opensuse 11.0 my trouble was:

   a. hcitool scan was finding the phone
   b. I could send files to phone in konqueror with “/Actions/Send with bluetooth”
   c. My phone was not finding the notebook bluetooth.
   d. The kbluetooth icon in the panel was not finding the notebook bluetooth

2. After reading a lot of post, this solution work for me:

   a. Uninstall:

   • All bluez packages
   • All obex packages
   • All hci packages
   • All kdebluetooth packages
   • libbluetooth3
     b. Reboot
     c. Add repo “http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/enzokiel:/bluez3/openSUSE_11.1”
     d. Install:
   • libbluetooth2
   • Only bluez-utils
   • hci_usb and hci_usb-kmp-pae
   • kdebluetooth and kdebluetooth-lang
   • libbluetooth2
   • openobex and openobex-apps
   • obex-data-server, obexfs and obexftp
     e. Reboot

3. Here my current configuration:

rpm -qa | grep blue
kdebluetooth-lang-1.0_beta8-173.2
libbluetooth2-3.36-4.1
bluez-utils-3.36-7.2
kdebluetooth-1.0_beta8-173.2

notebook:/ # dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.3
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast

4. I hope this work for someone.