On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote:
> > > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood <robin.atw...@attglobal.net>
>
> wrote:
> > > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running
> > > > KDE 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up
> > > > the laptop it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The
> > > > BlueZ libraries have changed substantially since, I think. Using
> > > > 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there
> > > > searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*?
> > > > Doc is a bit hard to come by.
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > > > -Robin
> > >
> > > Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working
> > > without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by
> > > - Building the appropriate communications-types modules
> > > - Starting the bluetooth init script
> > > - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to
> > > connect/disconnect
> >
> > I'm using net-wireless/bluedevil-1.2.2 and I do not have any such
> > problems. However, I'm not using the whole KDE desktop and I'm still on
> > KDEPIM 4.4.11.1
>
> I had a go at browsing the filesystem on my Blackberry. It won't work.
>
> obexftp fails in each case to list the contents on the BB internal flash.
> When looking under Known Devices on the Bluedevil applet on the desktop,
> it says:
>
> "No supported services found"
>
> which make me think that the way this BB is set up, it won't share its fs
> with a PC.
>
> if your run:
>
> # sdptool browse <your_device_MAC_address>
>
> it will list a number of services that the device supports after you
> connect it to your PC.
>
> Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was able
> to send and receive files using obex push.
I tried the browse but got "Protocol not supported". :(
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.
"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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