Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 07:21:18 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi. I am getting more troubles with bluetooth 5.14 -- 4 worked fine, 5
> > seems to have a lot of quirks.
>
> I occasionally tether my phone to my laptop using bluetooth and have found
> that establishing a connection can be quite temperamental. Rebooting the
> phone or disabling/enabling its bluetooth service usually helps get a
> response
> from it.
>
>
> > I get the following lines from a program I am running called brltty:
> > >Mar 1 15:25:35 ccs bluetoothd[2684]: No agent available for request
> > >type 0
>
> This is typically obtained when the device is not set to be discoverable.
> Check that they both are. If you have restarted/reset either you may need to
> set them back to discoverable.
>
>
> > >Mar 1 15:25:35 ccs bluetoothd[2684]: device_request_pin: Operation not
> > >permitted
> > >Mar 1 15:25:35 ccs brltty[16004]: RFCOMM connect error 111: Connection
> > >refused.
>
> Have you set up the correct device MAC address in /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
> and restarted it? If yes then this may be a matter of misstyping the pin?
>
>
> > HOw can I fix this? There is a new program under bluetooth 5 called
> > bluetoothctl, and I paired, trusted and connected, and still no joy.
>
> I don't have bluetoothctl here to know what it does, but I use l2ping,
> hciconfig and sdptool first to make sure that I can see and read the device I
> am trying to pair with. If you have indeed managed to pair the two devices
> you would not be getting the above connection errors, unless the radio signal
> broke down after pairing, due to e.g. weak signal or electromagnetic
> interference from some external source.
I don't even have any /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf. I did pair, trust and
connect with bluetoothctl. Are you using bluetooth5 -- I never had
these problems till the upgrade to 5. The device is pretty close to the
computer and it does show up on the scan from hcitool.
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