On Sunday 05 April 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Been playing with a script, step by step. It gets to the line hciconfig -a hci0 putkey 0000 (which is the default key at the other end of this link I'm trying to reliably establish) The script: ---------------------------------- #!/bin/bash echo attempting to get bt link to the coco3 echo "rfcomm release hci0" rfcomm release hci0 sleep 5 echo "hciconfig hci0 down" hciconfig -a hci0 down sleep 5 echo "hciconfig -a hci0 up" hciconfig -a hci0 up sleep 5 hciconfig -a sleep 5 echo "hciconfig -a hci0 noauth noencrypt nosecmgr" hciconfig -a hci0 noauth noencrypt nosecmgr sleep 5 echo "hciconfig -a hci0 putkey 0000" hciconfig -a hci0 putkey 0000 --------which returns: Can't find link key for 0000 on hci0 ^C And as you can see I killed it there. What am I doing wrong? -------------script continues---------------- sleep 5 echo "rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 bind hci0 00:0c:84:00:86:F8" rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 bind hci0 00:0c:84:00:86:F8 sleep 5 echo "rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 connect hci0 00:0c:84:00:86:F8" rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 connect hci0 00:0c:84:00:86:F8 sleep 5 echo this should show the cocos address rfcomm -i 11:11:11:11:11:11 show hci0 ------------------------------- And it did yesterday morning before I broke it somehow trying to make a script that Just Worked(TM) :( Where are the bluetooth guru's? Or, where can I find the RFC documents that describe how all this is supposed to work? What I want to do, and was doing, is to run a system shell on the bt device on the other end, and minicom or picocom to /dev/rfcomm0 as a remote terminal on that system. Thanks everybody. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html