Trying To Start Up Bluetooth On Oz

[jna]

Hi,

I have Billionton CF BlueTooth card and I am trying to get it to work since few days without success
At first I had Cacko and it worked fine, but I have switched to OZ 3.5.3 and I can not start it up. I have tried to follow few HOW-TOs, but no good results.

When I insert card into slot it is automatically discovered in status bar as "Billionton Bluetooth Card" and it blinks. And this is the only positive response.

# sdptool browse
Inquiring ...
Inquiry failed

# hcitool scan
Device is not available.: Address family not supported by protocol

# cardctl status
Socket 0:
  3.3V 16-bit PC Card
  function 0: [ready]

#  setserial /dev/ttyS3 baud_base 921600
/dev/ttyS3: No such device or address

(yes, /dev/ttyS3 exists)

Where is my fault, what should I do? please help,
Jakub

[jna]

Does anyone can give me any suggestion what should I do?

I'm just about switching back to Cacko, but OZ seems to run faster so I still would like to have some try...

[HeavyWeaponDude]

Try this way.
First you need to have installed kernel-module-bluecard-cs.
Then you may need to edit /etc/pcmia/bluetooth.conf
Find the following section:

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card "Billionton Bluetooth Card"
  version "Compact Flash", "Bluetooth Card"
  bind "bt950_cs"
and change the last line to:

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 bind "serial_cs" class "bluetooth"
Then save and restart your pcmcia deemon: /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

At this point you can insert your card.
Try issuing the following commands in this order:

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setserial /dev/ttyS3 baud_base 921600
modprobe hci_uart
hciattach /dev/ttyS3 billionton
hciconfig hci0 up
And here you go. Try to issue a: hcitool scan
just to check everything works fine.

Hope this helps.

I've reach this point but from here on, I've been unable to find a way to ease the bluetooth startup. "/etc/init.d/bluetooth start" doesn't work for me...

[jna]

First of all - thank you for your help!

I have done all the steps untill:

Try issuing the following commands in this order:

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setserial /dev/ttyS3 baud_base 921600
modprobe hci_uart
hciattach /dev/ttyS3 billionton
hciconfig hci0 up

setserial result is following:

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# setserial /dev/ttyS3 baud_base 921600
/dev/ttyS3: No such device or address
I guess it is again problem with lack of some modules. It took me long time untill I have realised that OpenZaurus default kernel does not include many modules such us bluetooth etc. They are also not in standard feed, they just have to be downloaded from http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/packages/

Do you know which modules should I download to have setserial working? I was trying with some, but without any results.

[HeavyWeaponDude]

As I have wrote, you have to install "kernel-module-bluecard-cs".
It is in the standard feed (machine section).
You also may have to edit /etc/pcmia/bluetooth.conf.
Check my previous post for details.

[jna]

I have done all the steps you have written up to "setserial", including installation of "kernel-module-bluecard-cs" and editing bluetooth.conf.

In the meantime I have found also other modules which are required for setserial to work. But hciattach returns following result:

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# hciattach /dev/ttyS3 billionton
Unknown device type or id
I have tried also with other parameter:

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# hciattach /dev/ttyS3 bcsp
Can't get port settings: Input/output error
Can't initialize device: Illegal seek
How can I get hciattach working?

[HeavyWeaponDude]

Try to insert the card, and type from console:

cardctl ident

then compare the results with the content in your /etc/pcmia/bluetooth.conf
file. Maybe your card has a different chip?

[jna]

I have following results:

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# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Compact Flash", "Bluetooth Card", "", ""
  manfid: 0x0279, 0x950b
  function: 2 (serial)
And file /etc/pcmcia/bluetooth.conf contains:

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card "Billionton Bluetooth Card"
  version "Compact Flash", "Bluetooth Card"
  bind "serial_cs" class "bluetooth"
What else can I do?

[HeavyWeaponDude]

Looks exactly as mine...
I'm unable to help you more, unfortunately.
As far as I can see, everything looks ok...

[Hrw]

for 2.4 kernel you need bt950_cs module
for 2.6 you have to try all BT modules as bt950_cs is 2.4 only

[jna]

Thank you both for your support. I have tried also with BT modules I have found, but still could not get it working. After installing all of these packages my OpenZaurus started to have other problems - I can not suspend it or even switch it off (have to remove battery). Another thing is that setserial hangs up (and even can not be killed -9). TOP shows load average about 2 (before it was about 0).

I am going to check pdaXrom and if I can set it up (with bluetooth etc.) in few days it will be great, if not I will switch back to Cacko (bluetooth was working there "out of the box").

Thanks again, hope one day I can try OZ again