FC4 bluetooth pairing problems, phone <-> laptop? (OK in FC3)

[Des Johnston]

As a post-postscript pairing now works if I comment out dbus_pin_helper
in hcid.conf, doh.....


On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Des Johnston wrote:

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> As a postscript, a DBT120 bluetooth USB dongle _will_ initialize if the 
> firmware is installed seperately using bluez-firmware tarball.
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> However, the failure to pair with a Nokia 6630 phone persists if the USB 
> dongle is used instead of an Armadillo CF BT adapter on the x21 laptop or 
> even on a desktop machine. Is there a generic problem with the bluez stack in 
> FC4 and this phone (or others)? It was happy enough to pair up in FC3 with 
> either CF or USB adapters on the same machines.
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> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Des Johnston wrote:
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>> I am unable to persuade a Nokia 6630 phone to pair with an Armadillo 
>> Bluetooth CF card (LSE039) in an IBM x21 laptop (FC4 clean install). The 
>> laptop and phone can see each other but refuse to pair. When initiating a
>> pairing it doesn't get as far as requesting the pin on the laptop.
>> Changing /usr/bin/bluepin to echo a particular pin has no effect.
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>> The same setup (with identical bluetooth conf files) works fine in FC3,
>> requesting a PIN when pairing and hooking up thereafter to give gprs
>> over /dev/rfcomm*
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>> Another minor hassle is that a DBT120 bluetooth USB dongle won't initialize 
>> on a desktop machine, which again works fine in FC3.
>> 
>> Has anyone run across similar difficulties (and solved them .. :) ?
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