On 03/03/14 21:21, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 13:05:10 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> >>> I don't even have any /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf. >> What do you have in your /etc/conf.d/bluetooth? This is mine: >> ============================= >> # Bluetooth configuraton file >> >> # Bind rfcomm devices (allowed values are "true" and "false") >> RFCOMM_ENABLE=true >> >> # Config file for rfcomm >> RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf" >> ============================= >> >> Also, /etc/init.d/bluetooth has a dependency on rfcomm, so it starts it >> first. >> >> I need rfcomm for tethering, but I don't know if it is necessary for your >> needs. Is your rfcomm running? >> >> >>> 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. >> No, my bluetooth devices are rather ancient, so I don't know if my set up >> would work with blutooth 5.0 and in any case I don't seem to have >> bluetoothctl. Which program provides it now? I can't fine bluez-utils in >> portage. > I think they may have changed things, in bluetooth 4, I think there was > a separate package, now all seems to be in bluez package. Maybe hcidump > is still separate. > If you have bluez 4, the agent is simple-agent and would not work on 5 > -- they changed the apis. > >
correct, bluez-utils was part of bluez 3
