Re: bluetooth faq

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Hi  Cinaed,

On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 21:07 -0700, Cinaed Simson wrote:
> The FAQ on the Wiki appears to indicate that you need to build the
> source is a kernel version > 2.6.
> 
> However, the build fails on Jessie running kernel version 3.16.51-3
> because of no ell.
> 
> Not big deal.
> 
> I was able to download it and build it but the ell web page suggests I
> need the latest kernel version - 4.17 for things to work.
> 
> I haven't actually installed ell to see if that was only requirement for
> the build which wasn't mentioned in the README.
> 
> So am I wasting my time the release from
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git
> 
> ? I don't mind installing additional packages from source provided it
> fixes the known problems with bluetooth.
> 
> I am currently using 5.49 from
> 
>    https://github.com/Vudentz/BlueZ.git
> 
> It doesn't require ell to build.
> 
> The following URL
> 
>    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/bluetooth_cryptography_bug/
> 
> which is what got me started looking for information and possible fixes.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- Cinaed
> 

If you want to leave out the requirement for ell, you can run
bootstrap-configure with --enable-mesh=no option. Alternatively, you
can remove line "--enable-mesh" in your bootstrap-configure file
altogether.

Regards,
Inga
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