Bluetooth (bluez) under Fedora-6

[Timothy Murphy]

I am running bluez under Fedora-6
(I have installed all bluez* packages)
and want to link to my phone (a Sony-Ericsson T630)
using gnokii.
Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to set a bluetooth pin
on my computer.

When I try to connect (with "gnokii --identify")
the phone asks for the pin,
but whatever I enter on the phone
I am told there is a Passkey mismatch.

I notice that /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
came without any pin_helper entry.
I tried the following three:

# PIN helper
        # pin_helper dbus_pin_helper;
        # pin_helper /usr/bin/bluez-pin;
        pin_helper /etc/bluetooth/feed-pin.sh

In the last case feed-pin.sh reads

#!/bin/sh
echo "PIN:0000"

and has mode 755.
I ran "sudo service bluetooth restart" after each change.
I also ran "sudo bluez-pin --dbus &".

As far as I can see a window should came up on my laptop
asking me to enter a pin, but nothing came up.

More recently, I downloaded and installed 
kdebluetooth and kdebluetooth-devel from the redhat-kde site.
Unfortunately I could not find any documentation for this,
and no commands I gave seemed to have any useful effect.

Incidentally, when I ran "rpm -ql kdebluetooth"
I notices a large number of *.desktop files.
Am I right in thinking that these are potentially at least
entries in the Fedora menu?
If so, how does one add them to the menu?

Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

On 3/20/07, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> I am running bluez under Fedora-6
> (I have installed all bluez* packages)
> and want to link to my phone (a Sony-Ericsson T630)
> using gnokii.
> Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to set a bluetooth pin
> on my computer.
>
> When I try to connect (with "gnokii --identify")
> the phone asks for the pin,
> but whatever I enter on the phone
> I am told there is a Passkey mismatch.
>
> I notice that /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
> came without any pin_helper entry.
> I tried the following three:
>     # PIN helper
>     # pin_helper dbus_pin_helper;
>     # pin_helper /usr/bin/bluez-pin;
>     pin_helper /etc/bluetooth/feed-pin.sh
>
> In the last case feed-pin.sh reads
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "PIN:0000"
>
> and has mode 755.
> I ran "sudo service bluetooth restart" after each change.
> I also ran "sudo bluez-pin --dbus &".
>
> As far as I can see a window should came up on my laptop
> asking me to enter a pin, but nothing came up.
>
> More recently, I downloaded and installed
> kdebluetooth and kdebluetooth-devel from the redhat-kde site.
> Unfortunately I could not find any documentation for this,
> and no commands I gave seemed to have any useful effect.
>
> Incidentally, when I ran "rpm -ql kdebluetooth"
> I notices a large number of *.desktop files.
> Am I right in thinking that these are potentially at least
> entries in the Fedora menu?
> If so, how does one add them to the menu?
>
> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.

before following this, please take note that I'm on rawhide .. some
stuff might be different

try using

security user;
dbus_pin_helper;

I had this problem 2 days ago with my new SonyEricsson k320i ... and I
couldnt find any bluez-pin etc on rawhide ... with that settings, the
bluetooth-applet will ask the pin ..

if you want to put the pin directly into the config .. try using this
in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf

security auto;
passkey "0000";

[Timothy Murphy]

Hikaru Amano wrote:
> > I am running bluez under Fedora-6
> > (I have installed all bluez* packages)
> > and want to link to my phone (a Sony-Ericsson T630)
> > using gnokii.
> > Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to set a bluetooth pin
> > on my computer.
> try using
>
> security user;
> dbus_pin_helper;

Thanks for your response.
I tried all your suggestions, but without success.
> I had this problem 2 days ago with my new SonyEricsson k320i ... and I
> couldnt find any bluez-pin etc on rawhide ... with that settings, the
> bluetooth-applet will ask the pin ..

I'm not sure what you mean by the bluetooth-applet.
I am running KDE, and don't see any such applet.
> if you want to put the pin directly into the config .. try using this
> in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
>
> security auto;
> passkey "0000";

I tried that, again without success.

When I run "strace gnokii --identify" it looks as though
the program might be looking for some kind of X permission -
I saw in older postings it was suggested one should say "xhosts +",
but I'm not sure what is the equivalent command with xauth,
if indeed there is one.

[Ambrogio]

Il giorno mar, 20/03/2007 alle 04.10 +0000, Timothy Murphy ha scritto:
> Hikaru Amano wrote:
> > security auto;
> > passkey "0000";
>
> I tried that, again without success.

Hi,

I'm having the same problem you described on fedora mail list.
I didn't found solution on posts, and I'm working with google and some
other resource to try make working my bluetooth phone.

Did you solved it?

Tnx
 Ambrogio