Comments on: HowTo: Pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Intrepid for file transfers etc.

By: HowTo: Pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Jaunty for file transfers etc. | The HyRax Macrocosm

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:53:23 +0000

[...] up my previous article of how to pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Intrepid, I present this updated article for pairing your mobile phone using the updated version of the [...]

By: pad4thai

pad4thai — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:32:13 +0000

8.10 and 9.04 can’t (bond)pairing my mobile phone blueman 1.0 can’t help me

By: Petr Peska

Petr Peska — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:48:03 +0000

Thanks HyRax for the info. I will get a different dongle and give it another try

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:19:56 +0000

Billy, did that work for you? If it did, great, but I have never had any such issues, so clearly there is something different about your Bluetooth adapter. Please check that it is Bluetooth 1.2 compliant or higher.

I’ve also just upgraded to Jaunty (last night in fact) and my Bluetooth stack is working quite nicely at the moment, icon and all.

By: billy

billy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:31:47 +0000

fix:
info here:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/289836

add “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ubuntu intrepid main” to sources list

get key: “sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 6B15AB91951DC1E2″

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blueman

What this DOES is uninstalles bluez4 and installs bluez3. Bluez4 is buggy and you need bluez3.

after all that go into your menu and click on BLUETOOTH MANAGER

hope this helps

By: billy

billy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:08:29 +0000

**after doing ‘research’ i have found others with the same laptop as me have had no problems at all.

By: billy

billy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:48:33 +0000

the lines i get are identical to those in your example

By: HyRax

HyRax — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:35:50 +0000

Petr and Billy: You can definitely use the LiveCD. It looks to me that your Bluetooth dongle might not be supported. There are a lot of cheap dongles out there that only support Bluetooth 1.1 and Ubuntu requires your adapter to have Host Controller Interface (HCI) support, which is typically any Bluetooth 1.2 device or higher.

You can see if your Bluetooth adapter is being recognised by typing in:

dmesg | grep Bluetooth

…and looking at the output to see if the Bluetooth stack is being initialised (note the capital “B” in “Bluetooth” in that command). If you don’t see some lines similar to the following:

[ 13.396166] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13
[ 13.420159] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 13.430622] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 13.587944] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.3

…then your Bluetooth adapter is not recognised by Ubuntu, because if it were, the Bluetooth icon would appear straight away in the system tray.

Check the specifications of your Bluetooth adapter.

By: billy

billy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:04:03 +0000

** excuse me “always display icon” is selected.

By: billy

billy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:03:27 +0000

I am not getting the bluetooth icon as well and i have the option “always visible” selected