FC6 - How to use Bluetooth

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Thu Nov 2 16:23:30 UTC 2006


Karel Brinda wrote:

> I have notebook Acer TravelMate 4650 with an integrated bluetooth
> adapter but I don't know, how to connect to my phone (Siemens E71). When
> I press my BT button I see a bluetooth icon and a title "Switched device
> to discoverable mode but I cannot find my notebook in the phone. The
> mobile phone is set correctly. How can I solve my problem?


Are you running Bluetooth on your computer?
The standard Linux Bluetooth program is bluez .
Try "service bluetooth restart" and then "hciconfig -a".
That should tell you if bluetooth is running on your machine.

I use gnokii to link to my Sony-Ericsson phone with bluetooth,
but there are many other ways of doing it. 

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