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gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:13 pm
by siden
I have a integrated bluetooth chip in my computer running an up-to-date linux mint13 64bits
when i run gimx bluetooth, it say ther's not any bluetooth device detected.
if I run "lsusb" in a terminal, it returns:
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Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3005 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011 Bluetooth
so the bluetooth is there...
any idea?
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:32 pm
by Matlo
No bluetooth dongle from this chip manufacturer was reported to be compatible.
http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Bluetooth_dongle
What's the result of "hciconfig -a"?
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:17 pm
by siden
here is the result of "hciconfig -a"
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hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 121:3
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:1303 acl:0 sco:0 events:54 errors:0
TX bytes:717 acl:0 sco:0 commands:52 errors:0
Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0d 0xfe 0x98 0x7f 0x79 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: 'mint-0'
Class: 0x6e0100
Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Audio, Telephony
Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
HCI Version: 3.0 (0x5) Revision: 0x9999
LMP Version: 3.0 (0x5) Subversion: 0x9999
Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:44 pm
by Matlo
What's the result of:
and:
?
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:13 pm
by siden
"hciconfig -a hci0" make the same as "hciconfig -a"
hciconfig -a hci0:
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hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 121:3
Unsupported manufacturer
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:02 pm
by Matlo
I've no idea why gimx-bluetooth doesn't detect it
What's the result of:
and
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bdaddr -r -i hci0 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0
?
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:33 pm
by siden
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$ bdaddr -r -i hci0 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0
Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)
Device address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0
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$ bdaddr
Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)
Device address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0
Unsupported manufacturer
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:23 am
by Matlo
You can try -at your own risk- to change the bdaddr:
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bdaddr -r -i hci0 <sixaxis bdaddr>
Replace <sixaxis bdaddr> with the one shown in gimx-bluetooth.
After that try to read the bdaddr and check if it was applied:
This will tell if there is a chance for this bt module to work with GIMX.
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:58 am
by siden
what are the risks?
Re: gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:17 am
by Matlo
I checked the bdaddr source code, the manufacturer "Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)" is not supported.
It won't work, there is no need to test it.