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

[Jesper Holck]

I finally found a solution, so - answering my own question:

Apparently you can't get this to work with the rpm-files only. You need 
to download the source code (e.g. bluez-utils-3.9.tar.gz), inside this 
archive find the "daemon" directory, and compile the program 
"passkey-agent". Please note that this program is *not* installed if you 
do "configure" and "make install" in the base directory only.

This is supposed to run as a daemon (in the background) and can provide 
the pin code, when the headset asks for it. So I have made this small 
script to get things properly working:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/modprobe snd_bt_sco
/usr/sbin/hcid
passkey-agent --default "0000" &    # "0000" is the pin code for the headset
btsco 00:00:00:00:00:00 &    # Bluetooth address of headset

snd_bt_sco and btsco are from Bluetooth alsa 
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116589)

/Jesper


Jesper Holck wrote:
> 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
>
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