You aren't crazy. Bluetooth under FC provides little or no useful functionality. Not even sure why its enabled by default in FC4. http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Using_Linux_and_Bluetooth_DUN_with_the_Treo650.php is a decent tutorial on setting up your FC machine to use a mobile phone as a modem but even that tutorial has some holes in it (such as where the /dev/rfcomm devices are, cuz they aren't on my machine. might have something to do with the binding of the phone address). On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:16 -0400, Cyrus Adkisson wrote: > I'm trying to get make a file-sharing connection between my laptop > (equipped with a D-Link DBT120 dongle) and my new Motorola RAZR phone. > I've done a lot of searching, reading and perusing about bluetooth on > this list and on google, but I'm really just more confused now than I > was when I started. Here's what I think I know (please correct me where > I'm wrong, which may be a lot of places): > > 1. The kernel includes BlueZ, which is the underlying code to handle the > Bluetooth stack. FC3 contains several packages to help provide bluetooth > support including: > > bluez-pin-0.23-3 > bluez-hcidump-1.11-1 > bluez-utils-2.10-2 > bluez-libs-2.10-2 > bluez-bluefw-1.0-6 > > 2. One can start the hcid and sdpd daemons by using the command "service > bluetooth start" on an FC distro. hcid manages the bluetooth > connections, and sdpd allows connected devices to show what services > they have. > > 3. After choosing "find me" on the motorola phone (which enables > bluetooth discovery) I can do the following: > > [root@laptop ~]# hcitool scan > Scanning ... > 00:12:8A:97:FC:27 Motorola Phone > > ...which finds my motorola phone, apparently. > > 4. Here is the part where I'm really fuzzy. There are two interface > packages to use with your desktop environment, gnome-bluetooth and > kdebluetooth. I use KDE, but I gave gnome-bluetooth a try. I was able to > yum install gnome-bluetooth, but it seems to be grossly underdeveloped > for actual use. The "Bluetooth Manager" which appears under system tools > can discover my phone, but that's about it. Nothing else works. The file > sharing program under system tools does nothing. > > Because there was no RPM for FC available, I tried downloading the KDE > bluetooth tarball available from sourceforge compiled on 3-20-05. It > seemed to compile at first, but then I realized that the kbluetoothd > portion was not compiling. I have not been able to get it to compile. I > thought I'd try the CVS versions, but the link to "cvs snapshots" on the > KDEbluetooth homepage was broken and the CVS instructions were not > valid. The server specified doesn't seem to be online. > > So I'm pretty much stuck here. I don't know how to pair the phone and > the laptop together, and even if I could, I don't have any way to move > files between them without KDEBluetooth. Can someone lend me a hand? > Maybe you know where to get the latest KDEBluetooth CVS stuff... > > Cyrus >
