The reduculous state of bluetooth in gnome.

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Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:40 pm

I have been trying to get an internet connection through my phone with bluetooth working in gentoo for a couple of months now with no success. There seem to be NO bluetooth tools in gnome at all either.

Then, last night a friend of mine was trying to do the same thing on his default kubuntu installation and Had me help him. Plugged in a usb dongle and a message popped up in kde notifying of a bluetooth device. I edited the bluetooth config files and set up rfcomm0 for my phone. I attempled to pair my phone with his computer and a window popped up in kde asking for a pin, perfect. Then I set up kppp to dial out on rfcomm0. I had this connection working from scratch in about 15 minutes.

Now why is it so hard to get it working in gentoo/gnome? This is really frustrating!

This is what I get with the commands in gentoo:

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white-rabbit xamindar # hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:17:D5:34:40:75       SGH-T719
        00:12:56:5A:92:59       Jared`s LG CU500
white-rabbit xamindar # hcitool inq
Inquiring ...
        00:17:D5:34:40:75       clock offset: 0x5cb1    class: 0x720204
        00:12:56:5A:92:59       clock offset: 0x267c    class: 0x5a0204
white-rabbit xamindar # sdptool browse 00:12:56:5A:92:59
Browsing 00:12:56:5A:92:59 ...
Service Name: OBEX Object Push
Service RecHandle: 0x10000
Service Class ID List:
  "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 6
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: OBEX File Transfer
Service RecHandle: 0x10001
Service Class ID List:
  "OBEX File Transfer" (0x1106)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 7
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "OBEX File Transfer" (0x1106)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: LG Sync SPP
Service RecHandle: 0x10002
Service Class ID List:
  "Serial Port" (0x1101)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 16
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Serial Port" (0x1101)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: AV Audio Source
Service RecHandle: 0x10003
Service Class ID List:
  "Audio Source" (0x110a)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
    PSM: 25
  "AVDTP" (0x0019)
    uint16: 0x100
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Advanced Audio" (0x110d)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: AV Remote Control Target
Service RecHandle: 0x10004
Service Class ID List:
  "AV Remote Target" (0x110c)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
    PSM: 23
  "AVCTP" (0x0017)
    uint16: 0x100
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "AV Remote" (0x110e)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Audio Gateway
Service RecHandle: 0x10005
Service Class ID List:
  "Headset Audio Gateway" (0x1112)
  "Generic Audio" (0x1203)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 3
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Headset" (0x1108)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Audio Gateway
Service RecHandle: 0x10006
Service Class ID List:
  "Handfree Audio Gateway" (0x111f)
  "Generic Audio" (0x1203)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 4
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Handsfree" (0x111e)
    Version: 0x0101

Service Name: QC Dial-up Networking
Service RecHandle: 0x10007
Service Class ID List:
  "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 8
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
    Version: 0x0100

Looks good right? Well it's not.

I restarted the bluetooth service to make sure that the rfcomm device was linked and then tried to use Gnome ppp to dial out. When I do that I get a message saying "Can not open modem" and a log:

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--> Ignoring malformed input line: ";Do NOT edit this file by hand!"
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56
--> Cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: Device or resource busy
--> Cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: Device or resource busy
--> Cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: Device or resource busy

Any ideas? It would be nice if there were some bluetooth tools for gnome but it seems that the gap between gnome and kde keeps getting bigger and bigger every day with kde winning.

bugg_tb · Post by **bugg_tb** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:54 pm

net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth
Latest version available: 0.7.0-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 2,381 kB
Homepage: http://usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth/
Description: Gnome2 Bluetooth integration suite.
License: GPL-2

Give it a whirl

Enverex · Post by **Enverex** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:24 pm

gnome-bluetooth is a joke. It gives you a little tray icon to receive Bluetooth files and that's it. No configuration options, no other abilities, that's it.

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:42 am

Enverex wrote:gnome-bluetooth is a joke. It gives you a little tray icon to receive Bluetooth files and that's it. No configuration options, no other abilities, that's it.

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white-rabbit xamindar # emerge -av gnome-bluetooth

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth-0.8.0  USE="-debug" 0 kB 

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n

Quitting.

I have had that installed for a while now and on the most rescent version I get NOTHING. No config program, no icon in the tray. Pathetic.

Thanks for the tip though

Enverex · Post by **Enverex** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:37 am

The program appears under "System Tools" in the Gnome menu, you run that and that gives you the little icon.

widremann · Post by **widremann** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:50 pm

Enverex wrote:gnome-bluetooth is a joke. It gives you a little tray icon to receive Bluetooth files and that's it. No configuration options, no other abilities, that's it.

That's what you get for using GNOME. They don't believe in options or features.

bugg_tb · Post by **bugg_tb** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:02 pm

It's 'Ease of use'

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:16 am

widremann wrote:
Enverex wrote:gnome-bluetooth is a joke. It gives you a little tray icon to receive Bluetooth files and that's it. No configuration options, no other abilities, that's it.
That's what you get for using GNOME. They don't believe in options or features.

Yeah too bad to. Gnome seems to be going backward in time with each new release. I still support it and hope they correct their ways only because I like to be able to put my menu bar where I want and I like the way gtk apps look.

"Ease of use" is a very clever way of saying "we are too lazy to provide usefull features". Many programs make a very good way of making it user friendly by providing experience settings. (xine, azureus)

You know, I might just switch over to kde soon.