Re: Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy
On Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 12:36:22 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote:
> 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
... because wheezy's hciconfig is in /usr/sbin.
Cheers,
David.
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