Please help ... How can I connect to a bluetooth headset without pin_helper?

[Jesper Holck]

I have been working on this far too many hours without luck ...

I want to connect my FC6 installation (KDE) with my bluetooth headset,
using a bluetooth dongle. The dongle works nicely, I can scan for and
find the headset, but I can't pair with or connect to it.

Older versions of /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf had a line, specifying the
pin_helper to use, but apparently this is not allowed with the present
version. If I try this, I get an "Unknown option 'pin_helper' line 27"
error message.

When I try to connect with the headset using
   hciconfig cc 00:11:22:33:44:55
I get a line in /var/log/messages saying something like
   pin_code_request (sba=55:44:33:22:11:00, dba=00:11:22:33:44:55)
but nothing comes up, asking for the pin code...

I have tried specifying
   passkey "0000";
in the options-part of /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf, but with no success.

With the commander script kbtsco
(http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=45427), my experience
has been even more frustrating. I have in fact succeeded to establish a
connection two times (out of something like 50 attempts), but I have no
clue as to when it works and when it fails.

I use bluez-utils-3.7-1, bluez-libs-3.7-2, and bluez-gnome-0.6-1.fc6

Any help will be much appreciated!

Jesper, Denmark