On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:02 -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:54:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But nothing seems to enable the pairing, and everytime I do that > that far in > > the 'bluetooth-wizard' and it sees the eb101, it tells me to enter > an > > apparently randomly derived 4 digit pin number, but the wizard gives > me no > > place to enter it. Nor is there a 'proceed' button, and in 5 seconds > or so it > > clears that screen and reports pairing failed. > > bluez-gnome (where your bluetooth-wizard comes from?) has a really > stupid > UI design. If bluetooth-wizard thinks you *can* enter a PIN into your > device, it will *require* you to enter a random one. This idea > doesn't > work so well on devices that don't have keyboards or that have fixed > PINs, > and bluetooth-wizard knows only about broad categories of devices and > a > handful of exceptions. The opposite problem occurs on devices where > bluez-gnome thinks it knows a fixed-PIN device's PIN, but it actually > doesn't. > > Also, bluez-gnome's discovery page won't show you discoverable devices > that > are already known, so it can't tell you if a known device is in range. > 'hcitool scan' will tell you about all devices in range, but it causes > some > problems for bluetoothd if both are running at the same time. > > If you can, use simple-agent instead of bluetooth-wizard. Or you can use gnome-bluetooth which has those problems fixed. -- 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
