Hello, I have a machine with Centos 5.4, kernel version 2.6.34, Bluez-4.66, compat-wireless for 2.6.34 kernel version. The system knows about USB Bluetooth adapters [root@voip ~]# lsusb Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1131:1001 Integrated System Solution Corp. KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub However, hciconfig shows no devices: [root@voip ~]# hciconfig -a [root@voip ~]# Also, hcitool dev [root@voip ~]# hcitool dev Devices: the dmesg output about bluetooth shows Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14 Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2 Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast Please suggest your opinions. Regards, Andrei Moraru. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html