Bug#510644: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#510644: bluetooth.conf needs alterations for new D-Bus

2009-01-08 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Colin, > > that is exactly how it works and we can't use signal. Even directed > > signal are not working since the method call into the agent has to > > return the result or an error. > > > > What problem do you guys actually have with this? The agent inside > > bluez-gnome is verifying that t

Bug#510644: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#510644: bluetooth.conf needs alterations for new D-Bus

2009-01-07 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Colin, > > As far as I can tell, BlueZ agents work like this: > > > > * the agent (a UI process run by a user) calls a method on the hci daemon > > (run > > by root) and passes in its unique name and its (arbitrary) object path > > * later, the hci daemon calls a method on the agent > > > > s

Bug#410410: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#410410: bluez-gnome: add a "quit" or "remove" menu option in the systray menu

2007-02-10 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Ludovic, > I only have "Preferences" and "About" menu entries. I would like to also > have a "quit" or "remove" menu option to be able to stop the execution > of bluetooth-applet use the session preferences for that. Regards Marcel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > this is a bluez-utils-2.x config file and simply outdated. Check the > > source code for the latest one. > > The problem is not that the message does not arrive at hcid. If that is the > problem, setting mode to off would also not work but it does. > Only "connectable" and "disc

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > > > > Beside that, running the dbus command suggested in this bug report > > > > > works, too. It should be noted, though, that you have to be root. > > > > > > > > No. You have to be console user (or root). > > > > > > I cite from dbus policy that I somehow just don't get (too man

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > > Beside that, running the dbus command suggested in this bug report works, > > > too. It should be noted, though, that you have to be root. > > > > No. You have to be console user (or root). > > I cite from dbus policy that I somehow just don't get (too many english words > are

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > > * plugging the dongle in and then chaning to "connectable" may be too > > > late Practically the same thing as the default from above. > > > > This is why we go back to non-discoverable after 180 seconds by default. > > > > Supporting these kind of strange setting would also mean

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2006-12-31 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > > That is currently not the case because the bluetooth guys change stuff > > > but the user frontends do catch up a bit late. Just remember the passkey > > > situation and this is pretty much the same. It probably gets solved in > > > the long run but that's a strange idea of devel

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2006-12-31 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > > Note that deleting the "config" file in /var/lib/bluetooth is an > > > essential part of the solution. > > > > this is a big _NO_. Don't mess with the configuration storage directly. > > The configuration storage has priority over the hcid.conf file and this > > is meant to be th

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2006-12-31 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > > Yes, maybe correct grammatical mistakes if present. > > > Note that deleting the "config" file in /var/lib/bluetooth is an > > > essential > > > part of the solution. > > > > this is a big _NO_. Don't mess with the configuration storage directly. > > The configuration storage

Bug#384379: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384379: WORK-AROUND for "iscan not set"

2006-12-31 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Hendrik, > > > I am not sure why SCAN_INQUIRY is not set in discovto is not 0 (see > > > hcid/main.c:295). This is probably to not make it discoverable after > > > plugging the bt dongle in and thus correct behaviour. However, I do not > > > know of any user program that can actually handle tha

Bug#395173: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#395173: bluetooth icon shown even if no bluetooth is available

2006-10-25 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Per, > If you have bluez-passkey-gnome installed, you get a tray icon for it > even if you don't have any bluetooth hardware. This is a bit > annoying. If it was only shown when bluetooth was actually > *available*, we would be able to add bluez-passkey-gnome to the > gnome-desktop task and eve

Bug#392156: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#392156: FTBFS: has no member named 'link_sup_to'

2006-10-10 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Martin, > Package: bluez-hcidump > Version: 1.31-1 > Severity: serious > > This package fails to build in unstable: > > > Automatic build of bluez-hcidump_1.31-1 on coconut0 by sbuild/ia64 0.49 > ... > > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -Wall -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -c > > lmp.c > > cc

Bug#390035: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#390035: bluez-utils pin file readable by all

2006-10-09 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > In most cases, this is just a minor bug. At least having a default pin > > and 'pairing multi' on by default are much bigger issues, but it's a > > security related deviation from upstream. I would like to see this fixed. > > From what I can tell, when the user reaches the point

Bug#382771: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#382771: passkey agent for gnome could close #382771

2006-09-17 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > although as KDE user, I am not fully happy about that, the ITP for > > bluez-gnome > > (see #387923) also solves #382771. The BTS does not allow to express this, > > AFAIK, that's why I send this message... > > indeed, thanks for pointing that out, although I'm in the process o

Bug#385857: [Bluez-devel] Bug#385857: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385857: please upgrade to bluez-utils and bluez-libs 3.4

2006-09-05 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > > > > bluez-libs compiled out of the box by just unpacking and moving the > > > > > debian directory over, but bluez-utils needs some work: > > > > > > > > > > * remove bluez-bcm203x package (bcm203x firmware loader removed > > > > > upstream) > > > > > > > > Not needed at all.

Bug#385857: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385857: please upgrade to bluez-utils and bluez-libs 3.4

2006-09-04 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > the 3.5 is coming really soon and fixes another couple of rare race > > conditions that can lead to segmentation faults of hcid. The 3.1 version > > is not really suited for daily use. > > allright, I'm going to wait for bluez 3.5 and then package it. should be out this week. If

Bug#385857: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385857: please upgrade to bluez-utils and bluez-libs 3.4

2006-09-04 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Flavio, > Package: bluez-utils > Version: 3.1-4 > Severity: wishlist > > Yesterday I bought a Bluetooth USB dongle to connect with my mobile > phone, but I had some problems with discovery and sending files from > phone to computer. I'm using bluez-utils and kdebluetooth on Debian > testing/un

Bug#385019: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#385019: bluez-utils: dbaddr for EEPROMless devices

2006-08-28 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Alexander, > Package: bluez-utils > Version: 3.1-4 > Severity: wishlist > > Whilst trying to configure a BNEP network I found my friends USB dongle had a > wierd hardware address of > 11:11:11:11:11:11. Reading around it turns out this is what happens when the > device has no onboard EEPRO

Bug#378850: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#378850: bluez-utils: README.Debian contradicts NEWS.Debian

2006-07-26 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > > > > > I've updated README.Debian accordingly to your input, it is > > > > > > available at > > > > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-bluetooth/bluez-utils/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > > > > > > do you mind having a look and see if it answers your question >

Bug#378850: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#378850: bluez-utils: README.Debian contradicts NEWS.Debian

2006-07-26 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Marc, > > > > I've updated README.Debian accordingly to your input, it is available at > > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-bluetooth/bluez-utils/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > > > > do you mind having a look and see if it answers your question and/or it > > > > is > > > > l

Bug#378839: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#378839: bluez-pcmcia-support: udev support broken

2006-07-25 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi, > > > PHYSDEVPATH and the 'device' link are both deprecated and will go away > > > some day in the future, you better pass the values you want to use in > > > your script down from udev with $sysfs{}. That is not dependent on a > > > specific order of devices in sysfs. > > > I've attached wor

Bug#376860: [Bluez-devel] Bug#376860: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#376860: bluez-libs: FTBFS on hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-*

2006-07-06 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Samuel, > > of course it compiles fine, because it is all simple C code. However > > without the Bluetooth subsystem of the Linux kernel it is totally > > useless. > > Ok, but when BSD and the Hurd will have bluetooth drivers, it _will_ be > useful. only if they follow the Linux kernel interf

Bug#376860: [Bluez-devel] Bug#376860: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#376860: bluez-libs: FTBFS on hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-*

2006-07-06 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Samuel, > > > > > > bluez-libs currently FTBFS on hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-* just because > > > > > > it > > > > > > uses a non-standard errno code EBADRQC. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure about the right way to go: should bluez-libs, for > > > > > > portability reasons, use another error

Bug#376860: [Bluez-devel] Bug#376860: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#376860: bluez-libs: FTBFS on hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-*

2006-07-06 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > > > bluez-libs currently FTBFS on hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-* just because it > > > > uses a non-standard errno code EBADRQC. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure about the right way to go: should bluez-libs, for > > > > portability reasons, use another error code, or should the Hurd and BSD

Bug#322732: [Bluez-devel] [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#322732: more on this bug (was: rfcomm bind fails with obscure error message)

2006-06-04 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > > comments? > > > > check for EOPNOTSUPP error code and only then print this error. > > allright, I fixed this with the attached patch the patch has been applied to the CVS now. Thanks. Regards Marcel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Bug#322732: [Bluez-devel] more on this bug (was: rfcomm bind fails with obscure error message)

2006-05-29 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Filippo, > > When the 'rfcomm' kernel module isn't compiled with CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM_TTY > > enabled, 'rfcomm bind' will fail with an obscure error message, "Can't > > create device: Operation not supported". It does this when it's trying to > > bind to a device in /dev. > > > > Could this be ch