Re: Bluetooth: hardware detected but no device
On Wed 09 Mar 2016 at 11:52:50 (+0000), Markos wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for your tip about sliding switch.
> The tool rfkill was also very usefull.
> Now I can see the local and remote devices.
> The challenge now is to connect to cell phone (Nokia E71):
>
> Following https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser I tried
> gnome-bluetooth and blueman but I can't connect with them.
>
> Any tip?
None, I'm afraid. I can give you a recipe to try with wheezy, but I
haven't managed to convert it to jessie. This list drew a blank
last April.
The advice just given elsewhere in this thread is written from
the point of view of the computer. This might be find in some
circumstances but not when you have a phone as dumb as mine.
I know what to do to pair and tranfer pictures From The Phone;
after all, you don't have much choice in the matter:
On the phone, select a picture,
Say Send-it (or, in modern parlance, Share-it),
Select Bluetooth as the method,
If it's not on, it'll tell you and give you a button to do so,
Select the destination (if in the list) or Add-new-device,
It scans for devices, *
It offers you the name of the computer,
If you select it, it demands a number, †
Type it in, the phone connects and files start to fly. ‡
That pretty much says it all for the phone. At the computer:
* I can use "discoverable on" in bluetoothctl;
if that fails, just type "hciconfig hci0 piscan" as root.
† In wheezy, I would type "bluetooth-agent 1234" at or
before this step.
‡ In wheezy, I would type "yes | bt-obex -s /tmp/" at or
before this step. (Actually I have this permanently running
in wheezy. Stuff just arrives as and when.)
Noone has been able to tell me how jessie does † and ‡
in a way that works.
> Many thanks for your attention,
> Markos
I would like to think we can fix this.
Cheers,
David.
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