Dear list, I am trying to use multiple adapters to control multiple bluetooth devices. But it doesn't work. I already mailed it to this list but got no replay. I know that normally this isn't the way to do this, but I am trying to avoid another problem. I bind 4 devices to 4 adapters as follows: rfcomm -i hci0 bind rfcomm1 10:00:E8:6C:D8:14 1 rfcomm -i hci1 bind rfcomm2 10:00:E8:6C:D8:1D 1 rfcomm -i hci2 bind rfcomm3 10:00:E8:6C:EC:98 1 rfcomm -i hci3 bind rfcomm4 10:00:E8:6C:D7:D9 1 But, using minicom, I can only connect to the first device, the others give either cannot open /dev/rfcomm3: Connection refused or cannot open /dev/rfcomm4: No such file or directory All devices are available: crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 216, 1 Nov 6 09:49 /dev/rfcomm1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 216, 2 Nov 6 09:46 /dev/rfcomm2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 216, 3 Nov 6 09:46 /dev/rfcomm3 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 216, 4 Nov 6 09:46 /dev/rfcomm4 What am I doing wrong? (Using Ubuntu 12.04 with bluez-4.101 install from source.) Regards, Sietse PS On a side note: I think there is a bug in the rfcomm manual page. I don't understand the desciption of the -i parameter, but it is the same for years, The desciption looks mangled. -i <hciX> | <bdaddr> The command is applied to device -A Enable authentication. -E Enable encryption. -S Secure connection. -M Become the master of a piconet. hciX , which must be the name or the address of an installed Bluetooth device. If not specified, the command will be use the first available Bluetooth device. The mentioning of -A to -M should be removed I guess. -- 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