On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Bastien Nocera wrote: >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. But, the F10 rpm has no executables in it, a long list of .png's and .mo's and some docs, but nothing in it goes in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. Its all eye candy & no cattle. I have it and its deps installed, so what is the cli incantation that is supposed to run it? Thanks. -- 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) It's hard to keep your shirt on when you're getting something off your chest. -- 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
