 timcuthBraves FanPremium
join:2000-09-18
Pelham, AL
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1 edit | [Solved] Bluetooth on PC? I am always tuning, sometimes even the smallest things.
This morning, I noticed a bluetooth daemon starting on my Debian system. I don't use bluetooth on my system, so I ran update-rc.d to disable the daemon.
How would I tell whether my PC has Bluetooth capabilities, i.e., hardware? If I discover that it does have it, what would I use it for?
I have run "lspci -v" and don't see anything that specifically says bluetooth.
Tim
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 graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Re: Bluetooth on PC? Bluetooth is a comparably low bandwidth wireless network technology.
Some uses for it are communicating between a PC and cell phone, headset, mouse and keyboard, etc.
See: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth |
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 piperPremium
join:2001-04-19
Buffalo, NY | reply to timcuth
I don't use it, so ...
apt-get remove --purge bluetooth bluez-pcmcia-support
(running sysv-rc-conf in terminal will let you stop the process also)
you could try using, I have not used these in a long time, not sure if things have changed
lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
hcitool dev
hcitool scan
hcitool inq
hciconfig -a
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debian sid | apt-get into it
proudly anti-micro$oft using aptosid / siduction
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On my opensuse system, there is a an /etc/init.d/bluez-coldplug script that starts the bluetooth daemon when I plug in a bluetooth usb adapter.
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=bluetooth --action=add
When the adapter is plugged in, lsusb shows
Bus 001 Device 017: ID 1131:1004 Integrated System Solution Corp. Bluetooth Device
The syslog reports
kernel: [914560.971083] usb 1-6.2.4: new full speed USB device number 16 using ehci_hcd
kernel: [914561.064203] usb 1-6.2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=1131, idProduct=1004
kernel: [914561.064208] usb 1-6.2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
kernel: [914561.064211] usb 1-6.2.4: Product: ISSCEDRBTA
kernel: [914561.064213] usb 1-6.2.4: Manufacturer: ISSC
kernel: [914561.140069] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
kernel: [914561.140100] NET: Registered protocol family 31
kernel: [914561.140102] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
kernel: [914561.140104] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
kernel: [914561.140106] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
kernel: [914561.140118] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
kernel: [914561.156450] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6
kernel: [914561.170455] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
bluetoothd[28407]: Bluetooth daemon 4.96
bluetoothd[28408]: Starting SDP server
bluetoothd[28408]: D-Bus failed to register org.bluez.Proximity interface
bluetoothd[28408]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/input.conf failed: No such file or directory
bluetoothd[28408]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf failed: No such file or directory
kernel: [914561.255596] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
kernel: [914561.255598] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
bluetoothd[28408]: Listening for HCI events on hci0
kernel: [914562.268023] Bluetooth: hci0 command tx timeout
kernel: [914572.364010] Bluetooth: hci0 command tx timeout
Other than those clues, I do not know if there is a better way to detect the presence of a bluetooth adapter. I only played with a few times after I bought it on ebay for a few bucks and quickly came to the conclusion that the speed was so slow in transfering data from my bluetooth phone it was not worth pursuing further.
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timcuthBraves FanPremium
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Pelham, AL Reviews:
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Ok, thanks everybody. I had already disabled the daemon, I was just wondering if there was any reason I would want to use it. Apparently there is not.
So, everything is cool. 
Tim
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