bluetooth confusion

[Matthew Lenz]

You aren't crazy. Bluetooth under FC provides little or no useful
functionality.  Not even sure why its enabled by default in FC4.
http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Using_Linux_and_Bluetooth_DUN_with_the_Treo650.php is a decent tutorial on setting up your FC machine to use a mobile phone as a modem but even that tutorial has some holes in it (such as where the /dev/rfcomm devices are, cuz they aren't on my machine.  might have something to do with the binding of the phone address).

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:16 -0400, Cyrus Adkisson wrote:
> I'm trying to get make a file-sharing connection between my laptop 
> (equipped with a D-Link DBT120 dongle) and my new Motorola RAZR phone. 
> I've done a lot of searching, reading and perusing about bluetooth on 
> this list and on google, but I'm really just more confused now than I 
> was when I started. Here's what I think I know (please correct me where 
> I'm wrong, which may be a lot of places):
> 
> 1. The kernel includes BlueZ, which is the underlying code to handle the 
> Bluetooth stack. FC3 contains several packages to help provide bluetooth 
> support including:
> 
> bluez-pin-0.23-3
> bluez-hcidump-1.11-1
> bluez-utils-2.10-2
> bluez-libs-2.10-2
> bluez-bluefw-1.0-6
> 
> 2. One can start the hcid and sdpd daemons by using the command "service 
> bluetooth start" on an FC distro. hcid manages the bluetooth 
> connections, and sdpd allows connected devices to show what services 
> they have.
> 
> 3. After choosing "find me" on the motorola phone (which enables 
> bluetooth discovery) I can do the following:
> 
> [root at laptop ~]# hcitool scan
> Scanning ...
>        00:12:8A:97:FC:27       Motorola Phone
> 
> ...which finds my motorola phone, apparently.
> 
> 4. Here is the part where I'm really fuzzy. There are two interface 
> packages to use with your desktop environment, gnome-bluetooth and 
> kdebluetooth. I use KDE, but I gave gnome-bluetooth a try. I was able to 
> yum install gnome-bluetooth, but it seems to be grossly underdeveloped 
> for actual use. The "Bluetooth Manager" which appears under system tools 
> can discover my phone, but that's about it. Nothing else works. The file 
> sharing program under system tools does nothing.
> 
> Because there was no RPM for FC available, I tried downloading the KDE 
> bluetooth tarball available from sourceforge compiled on 3-20-05.  It 
> seemed to compile at first, but then I realized that the kbluetoothd 
> portion was not compiling. I have not been able to get it to compile. I 
> thought I'd try the CVS versions, but the link to "cvs snapshots" on the 
> KDEbluetooth homepage was broken and the CVS instructions were not 
> valid. The server specified doesn't seem to be online.
> 
> So I'm pretty much stuck here. I don't know how to pair the phone and 
> the laptop together, and even if I could, I don't have any way to move 
> files between them without KDEBluetooth. Can someone lend me a hand? 
> Maybe you know where to get the latest KDEBluetooth CVS stuff...
> 
> Cyrus
>