Hi.
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:08:08 -0500
"Martin McCormick" <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> I see the following messages in dmesg:
>
> Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
> Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
> Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
> Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
> Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
>
> Does this mean there is a bluetooth transceiver active on
> this Dell mother board? If so, I never knew it in all the years I
> have had this system which is about 16 or 17 years.
No, it does not. These messages mean that assorted bluetooth modules
are loaded.
> Another old Dell optiplex running wheezy also produces
> exactly the same messages when running dmesg.
>
> Is there any utility I can run to see if they are alive
> and useful?
But if /bin/hciconfig shows you at least one hci device - that means
that your kernel actually sees Bluethooth transceiver.
For instance, on this PC it looks like this:
$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:506 acl:0 sco:0 events:23 errors:0
TX bytes:343 acl:0 sco:0 commands:23 errors:0
Reco
