Where's the bluetooth jargon demystifier?

[Bill Davidsen]

James Pifer wrote:
>>> I go to the official bluez-utils web site and their documentation page
>>> basically says "You don't want to look at our docs, they suck.".
>>>
>>> I go to the official bluetooth web site and their documentation either
>>> tells me why I ought to be making bluetooth devices or talks about
>>> radio spectrum and communications layers.
>>>
>>> Where is the web page that explains to a human what the gibberish
>>> in the hcid.conf man page actually means?
>>>
>>> All I'm trying to do is arrange for my bluetooth keyboard (which definitely
>>> works with manual poking and prodding) to work automatically once
>>> my fedora 8 system has booted. Seems like it ought to be a simple task :-).
>>>
>> I have given up on BT for the moment. Under Windows there's a utility 
>> which shows the mouse, the keyboard, the printer, and all the nearby 
>> cell phones. Under Linux there's an icon which you can click (using a 
>> PS2 mouse) which does nada. And after downloading all the bluez stuff 
>> without reading the documentation (there is none on using the software, 
>> as you note), no amount of clicking, typing, or swearing made anything 
>> happen.
>>
> 
> I've had similar experiences. I'm actually running OpenSuse 10.3 on my
> laptop now. I'm running gnome but I have to run kbluetooth to get the
> mouse to work. Couldn't get gnome to see it at all. Even with
> kbluetooth, the mouse quits after a certain amount of inactivity.
> Haven't figured out how much though. When this happens I have to
> manually make kbluetooth reconnect. Very frustrating.
> 
People wou use a GUI instead of the command line... ;-)
Since I actually stumbled over what looks like the answer, see the "-t" 
option of the hidd command.

Now if I could get the --search command to *find* anything I would be 
happy. But changing the timeout may solve your problems. And yes, dmesg 
seems to show HID initializing, hidd runs fine, just doesn't see 
anything. Like a keyboard, mouse, printer, and two cell phone sitting on 
top of the &^%&^%&^ case! Bah!

> Same mouse and same laptop running Vista I never had these issues. It
> was found easily and never disconnected.
> 
No way in hell...


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