On Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 12:36:22 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes: > > 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 > > When I try that, I get: > > $/bin/hciconfig > bash: /bin/hciconfig: No such file or directory
... because wheezy's hciconfig is in /usr/sbin. Cheers, David.
