USB Bluetooth Adapters (Linux) - WORKING*

Aspiration · Feb 18, 2010

[quote="shanz"
I've installed Nautilus and now 'Browse Device' is available. [/quote]

How did you get Nautilus installed? I couldn't get my netbook to do that... too many unresolved dependency things so I just assumed it doesn't like gnome.

I did get the browse device working before I trashed the whole bluetooth installation... was only one way transfers and I have no desire to waste my valuable data plan by having my computer hog downloads via my Crapberry Storm... which sucks... I mean the phone sucks.

Aspiration · Feb 18, 2010

groeswenphil said:

I got as far as stage three and then got:-

[user@localhost ~]$ /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/hcid': Permission deniedOK ]
Can't open RFCOMM control socket: Address family not supported by protocol -- because its not installed?
touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/bluetooth': Permission denied -- requires root access permission

Phil
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I can tell from [user@localhost...] that you did not enter su first in the terminal window. unless you do this and type in the secret login code you used when first setting up the netbook, you will not be able to write to the directory. When you do type su and enter it should ask you for the password and then show something like [root...] instead of [user...] before the prompt

Yeah, I hit that snag too.]

Aspiration · Feb 18, 2010

The software link you give below is what broke my linpus lite. Bluez is for some other version of OS because it destroys the normal desktop screen until you reboot. Do not install Bluez on linpus lite... I'm warning you... haha. It will screw up the installation instructions given at the start of this board index.

sanger440 said:

cabanon,

I have played around a lot with the bluetooth setup on my Linpus Aspire One. The only time I had the problem losing my standard Linpus desktop was when I used Yum or the package manager to load bluetooth or bluez utilities. I re-imaged my AAO once I borked my desktop to a stable image I had saved prior to my experiments.

All I did was install the missing bluetooth.ko driver as per this thread and then installed only the official Aspire blue bluetooth software. The bluetooth stuff from Yum is what broke my box. Software is here: http://www.acer.com/aspireone/support/files/files.html

Then I was able to connect to my phone and configure my Kensington mouse. However, when I leave the bluetooth dongle in, sometimes it boots up and does not work correctly, but sometimes is does. But if I boot up, then blug in the BT dongle, it consistenly works pretty good.

Hope this helps.

Update: Ever since I posted my bluetooth doesn't always work when booting with the dongle in the usbport, it has booted and worked like 10-20 boots in a row. So my bluetooth mouse and dongle seems pretty stable.

Sanger
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Aspiration · Feb 18, 2010

Paquito1959 said:

linker3000 said:

Last Edit: 25-Oct-08 07:13UTC (minor)

These notes describe setting up a bluetooth adaptor for use with a mobile phone to connect to the Internet, but the initial setup and pairing procedure is also applicable to other devices such as keyboards and mouses - see the other posts in this thread for additional info from others.
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All this to just use bluetooth? Most people are just users, are not -and don't want to be- tech masters. It must be an easier way to make this. For me, it is no possible to do all this manual work.

Anyway, many thanks to people like linker 3000 that try and gives all the advice they can to people just for the sake of helping.

Regards,
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Yes... all this to use bluetooth. Can you imagine anyone spending the rest of their lives typing in the techy stuff each and every time they have to reinstall the OS from scratch? Well, that's Linux for you.

kengrace · Feb 18, 2010

F8T016

Aspiration said:

I have the bt-120 dongle and it worked. What's your's?

kengrace said:

Since my last post I bought a tiny Belkin dongle which is really unobtrusive. Attempting to get it to work I went through the whole Bluetooth set up all over again. The Belkin dongle didn't work, but the reinstall of the Bluetooth stuff made my previous dongle work perfectly.

I have been told by Belkin that its mini unit doesn't work under Linux - and after a couple of hours I tend to agree. So I bought another manufacturer's small, but not quite as neat, unit which works perfectly.

The Belkin dongle works with Bluetooth 2.1 while the ones I have that work have Bluetooth 2.0. I haven't been able to establish whether the Bluetooth set-up using Bluez supports Bluetooth 2.1. Could this be why the Belkin dongle doesn't work? Has anyone else been able to get the Belkin dongle to work on an AAO running Linpus?
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linker3000 · Mar 20, 2010

"Yes... all this to use bluetooth. Can you imagine anyone spending the rest of their lives typing in the techy stuff each and every time they have to reinstall the OS from scratch? Well, that's Linux for you."
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it's really more of a case of "Well, that's Acer's version of Linpus Linux for you" as they chose to not include the required bluetooth drivers in their implementation. My AA1 has been running Fedora 11 (and now 12) for a very long time now and Bluetooth 'just works' without all that fiddling around.

vivian · May 16, 2011

good post thankyou very much

Dazza · May 13, 2012

Help....

Where can I download the bluetooth.tgz and bluetooth2.tgz files?

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