Toggle bluetooth in EeePC?

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I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 GNOME on my dad’s 1000H.

In Ubuntu 9.10, I could toggle it by just clicking the right mouse button on the bluetooth icon and turn it on/off. But I didn’t find the same menu item in OpenSUSE’s bluetooth application

Could anyone please give me an advice?

Thank you, V.

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Looks like opensuse expects you to turn it on/off using the function keys or bluetooth switch.
Look at: Bluetooth - openSUSE
The applet does enable you to connect/disconnect devices though.

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Hmm… that’s terrible. EeePC doesn’t have an individual function key to toggle bluetooth - on windows’ acpi, it use the same function key with the wireless toggle. (Fn+F2)

I’ll just bare with it then. :’(

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Many pcs use a Fn key to disable it, so that is not new.
You have a choice though, you can try and compile and install the ubuntu applet from their source code.

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Hi
I’ve just updated eee-control which you can disable/enable bluetooth
via the eee-control-tray icon (http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/).

It’s version 0.9.4, rpms are built and should be up on the OBS soon for
11.2 and Factory;
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.2&p=1&q=eee-control
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory&p=1&q=eee-control

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Malcolm
I take it that this will work with all netbooks and not just eeepc?
My Acer d150 has a dedicated blutooth button but my samsung nc10 doesn’t.
I like eeebuntu for the ease of use for normal users, but prefer suse because of the ease of use using ldap and nfs.

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Hi whych
No it will only work on the eeePC’s :frowning: So does openSUSE work OK with
the bluetooth on your nc10?

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Hello, Malcolm.

I’ve just installed eee-control 0.9.4 from your repository, and founded this error message while pointing a cursor at the EeeControl tray icon:

Error while communicating with eee-control-daemon!
Make sure it is running.

I temporarily solved the problem by running ‘sudo eee-control-daemon’ in the terminal and enter my root password.

Do you have any method to run ‘eee-control-daemon’ automatically when system starts without entering the root password?

Thanks for this great package!
V.

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Hi
It runs as a service, so you need to set it to start when the system
boots and manually start initially;


sudo /sbin/chkconfig eee-controld on
sudo /usr/sbin/rceee-controld start

Or you can use YaST system services (runlevel) to enable and start.

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Malcolm
Bluetooth on samsung nc10 and acer in OpenSUSE works fine. Networking on acer works better.
Other than having a lower spec camera, acer is probably best value for money.

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I’ve executed the codes you gave me, It works! - eee-control-daemon always start along with the system.

I also added eee-control-tray to startup programs, so everything runs perfectly.

However, there is another problem about bluetooth. I found that if the system starts with the initially turned-off bluetooth, Eee Control will not be able to turn it on immediately - I have to wait until next restart before the bluetooth would function.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8255/bluetoothproblem.gif](http://img405.imageshack.us/i/bluetoothproblem.gif/)

(The bluetooth trayicon also didn’t appear, so I had to access this from the application browser.)

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Hi
How do you mean disabled in the BIOS or you had it disabled when you
shutdown? You should be able to down/up the interface via hciconfig


sudo /usr/sbin/hciconfig hci0 down
sudo /usr/sbin/hciconfig hci0 up

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I meant by disabling it via Eee Control before I shutdown the system, so the next time, it’s initially turned-off.

There is an unknown error while I tried to up the interface:

sudo /usr/sbin/hciconfig hci0 up
Can't init device hci0: Unknown error 132 (132)

:’(

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Hi
I see the same here, can you try running;


sudo /usr/bin/bluetooth-properties

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[quote=“malcolmlewis”]

Hi
The following sorts it;


gnomesu /usr/bin/bluetooth-properties

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