[COLUG] Re: Microcenter - computer megastore

[John Boker]

There is a microcenter in north-west columbus;  they have just about 
anything you'd want and their prices are pretty good.





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>    1.  Bluetooth Blues (Peter King)
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:22:18 -0400
> From: Peter King <peter.king at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: [COLUG] Bluetooth Blues
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> I can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong; perhaps someone
> can spot the mistake and set me straight.
>
> I'm trying to establish a bluetooth connection between an Apple
> Wireless Keyboard and, variously, a Lenovo 3000 n100 with Bluetooth
> built in, and an Asus eee with an added Bluetooth dongle. Neither
> quite works. But I have a successful Bluetooth connection between
> the Apple Keyboard with my Nokia n800; last night I managed to 
> pair it with my wife's MacBook; and today I connected to another iMac
> via the dongle -- so the problem, whatever it is, must be in how to 
> configure things on the Linux side.
>
> What I've done is this. On the eee/Lenovo, Bluetooth support is in
> the kernel, and I start it up via /etc/init.d/bluetooth. Once the
> daemons are running, on the eee I have to run sudo hciconfig hci0 up
> to get the dongle up and running, too. Anyhow, so now the eee/Lenovo
> should be ready. If I search with sudo hcitool scan I find the Apple
> keyboard, and I make a note of the keyboard's hardware address. I turn
> off the keyboard, turn it on again to put it in pairing mode, and run: 
>
>    sudo hidd --connect <KEYBOARD ADDRESS>
>
> That's where nothing happens. No matter what I do at this point -- be
> it nothing, or typing in any one of a variety of codes (0000 or the
> pin number in /etc/bluetooth/pin or the number my wife's MacBook told
> me to type in) -- the connection invariably times out. Sometimes I get
> a different message, saying that the device is down, but usually the
> message is that the connection timed out.
>
> If I try sudo hidd --search, instead, I usually don't find the keyboard
> at all. But if I run sudo hcitool scan just before, it will find the
> keyboard. And it says that it's connecting! But no such luck: it times
> out too.
>
> I've tried this with all manner of auth/encrypt enable and disable
> combinations in hcid.conf, without success. Ditto the line about master
> and slave. The connection HIDD=1 is set. No change.
>
> All this *just* to pair a keyboard. I shudder at the thought of trying
> to add a mouse. But on the Apple equipment, the pairing took less than
> half-a-minute. Not a victory for Linux, alas.
>
> Oh yes: the Lenovo runs gentoo, kernel 2.6.24r3; the eee runs Xandros, 
> as it came from the store with its stock kernel. No surprises in either 
> case.
>
> What do I try now?
>
>