bluetooth on fedora core 5

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat May 13 22:37:37 UTC 2006


S. Cesaretti wrote:

> Hi all,
> I need to configure bluetooth device on fedora core 5.
> I have one notebook dell inspiron 630m and it should have the bluetooth
> device integrated but
> when I try to configure it on fedora core and
> I try to execute the command:
> hcitool scan
> It doesn't find anything.
> I tried to install one bluetooth key as well that I used to use before
> with fedora core 4 but It doesn't work as well.
> I modified the file /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf with right parameters
> but nothing changed.
> How can I solve this thing?
> is there any automatic tools in text mode to configure the bluetooth
> devices?

(1) Have you tried (as root) "service bluetooth restart"?

(2) What does "hciconfig -a" say?

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