problem with bluetooth

when you first installed mepis you had an option to start bluetooth services on boot.
Ok, I didn't check that box either.
sdpd is a daemon which controls the sdp server and sdptools helps admnister the bluetooth stuff
start sdpd from the console as root
sdpd
then when you pug in your bluetooth adapter into the usb you should get this in /var/log/messages

Nov 5 20:05:42 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939479.626139] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
Nov 5 20:05:42 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939479.626146] NET: Registered protocol family 31
Nov 5 20:05:42 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939479.626148] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Nov 5 20:05:42 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939479.626161] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Nov 5 20:05:42 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939479.637259] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Nov 5 20:05:42 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939479.637264] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Nov 5 20:06:13 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939510.271199] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Nov 5 20:06:23 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939520.526989] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
Nov 5 20:06:23 tv-and-pvr kernel: [939520.528625] usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb

now you shuld be able to start kbluetoothd
and be able to play with the bluetooth adapter. I got this to work on one computer but not on another and then forgot about it.
We'll need someone else to help, and we have to have the sdpd daemon start at boot too.

You could try installing ksysv and dragging bluez-utils into one of the runlevels, but I don't know what particular one to use. Maybe somebody else could assist here?

Link to docs project page for services
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Configuring_what_services_start_at_boot_time

Mike P

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To try it without rebooting type in this command (as root):
/etc/init.d/bluez-utils restart

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Hi drlizau

This is my output from /var/log/messages
quote
Nov 5 16:49:07 localhost kernel: [17179845.136000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
Nov 5 16:49:07 localhost kernel: [17179845.136000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
Nov 5 16:49:07 localhost kernel: [17179845.136000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Nov 5 16:49:07 localhost kernel: [17179845.136000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Nov 5 16:50:57 localhost gconfd (george-4983): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 4983 user 'george'
Nov 5 16:50:57 localhost gconfd (george-4983): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Nov 5 16:50:57 localhost gconfd (george-4983): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/george/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Nov 5 16:50:57 localhost gconfd (george-4983): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Nov 5 16:50:57 localhost gconfd (george-4983): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Nov 5 16:50:57 localhost gconfd (george-4983): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Nov 5 16:52:05 localhost kernel: [17180023.416000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Nov 5 16:52:05 localhost kernel: [17180023.688000] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
Nov 5 16:52:05 localhost kernel: [17180023.768000] usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
Nov 5 16:52:07 localhost kernel: [17180025.344000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Nov 5 16:52:07 localhost kernel: [17180025.344000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Nov 5 16:52:07 localhost kernel: [17180025.364000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Nov 5 16:52:07 localhost kernel: [17180025.364000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Nov 5 16:52:07 localhost kernel: [17180025.364000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
Nov 5 17:04:59 localhost -- MARK --
Nov 5 17:23:03 localhost kernel: [17181881.928000] usb 4-1:

Tried sdpd
quote
george@3[~]$ su
Password:
root@3[george]# sdpd
root@3[george]#

I do not know if this started the daemon

I removed and replaced the dongle

quote
Nov 5 17:29:40 localhost kernel: [17182278.324000] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 4
Nov 5 17:30:04 localhost kernel: [17182302.756000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5

Shut down, restarted, message: unable to connect to sdp server
quote /var/log/messages

Nov 5 17:42:30 localhost kernel: [17179647.768000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
Nov 5 17:42:30 localhost kernel: [17179647.768000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
Nov 5 17:42:30 localhost kernel: [17179647.768000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Nov 5 17:42:30 localhost kernel: [17179647.768000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Nov 5 17:43:14 localhost kernel: [17179692.136000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Nov 5 17:43:15 localhost kernel: [17179692.520000] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
Nov 5 17:43:15 localhost kernel: [17179692.520000] usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
Nov 5 17:43:16 localhost kernel: [17179693.280000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Nov 5 17:43:16 localhost kernel: [17179693.280000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Nov 5 17:43:16 localhost kernel: [17179693.300000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Nov 5 17:43:16 localhost kernel: [17179693.300000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Nov 5 17:43:16 localhost kernel: [17179693.300000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7

I am now going to try a suggestion by Mike P
I will let you know how I got on
George

Hi Mike and Adrian
I have tried all the suggestions from drlizau, unfortunately to no avail.
I installed ksysv and dragged bluez-utils into run level 5.
I tried Adrian's suggestion but it did not help this time.
I shut down and restarted and received a message "bluetooth adapter found", so I hope this is me on my way.

Thank you all
George