Re: Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy

["Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net>]

Reco <recoverym4n@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

That settles it. Neither system has one. I feel better now.

Thank you. That is a good command to know.

Martin