Socket CF Bluetooth Rev 2.5G

[ccrandal]

Also forgot to mention I did set up a dial-up connection in the network panel per the Bluetooth How-To instructions.  /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf is still empty, though.

[ant]

now you should type

#sdptool browse

and note the device # (like 00:11:22:33:44:55) and channel # of your phone (usually Dial-Up is channel 1).

then write these in rfcomm.conf like this:

rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 00:11:22:33:44:55;  ==] your device #
channel 1;
comment \"test connection\";
}

[ccrandal]

sdptool browse is giving \"Inquiry failed...\" and hciconfig returns without writing anything to stdout.

I\'ll try hunting down the device # and editing the rfcomm.conf file.

Thanks
Curt

[ant]

]sdptool browse is giving \"Inquiry failed...\" and hciconfig returns without writing anything
]to stdout.

magic trick to reset the things after suspend:

#su
#cardctl resume
#/etc/pcmcia/bluetooth restart

if cardctl resume gives errors you have network up. Simply pull out the card, reinsert it and retype te a.m. commands.

[ccrandal]

I run those commands each time and it still does not work.  I\'ll try one more ROM flash and start from scratch and if that doesn\'t work, I\'m done.

Right now, no matter what I do I still get the:

Can\'t get port settings: Input/output error
Can\'t initialize device: Input/output error

everytime I restart bluetooth.

Thanks
Curt

[ant]

you must give the MAC address an the channel or you receive this:

Can\'t get port settings: Input/output error
Can\'t initialize device: Input/output error

if \"sdptool browse\" and \"hciconfig\" are working your setup is ok.
Restart the phone and start bluetooth on it!

[lwong]

I just got my Ambicom card to work after giving it up two weeks ago. Hope this might help:

-when you type \"sdptool browse\", do \"sdptool browse |more\" instead becasue the output is more than one page long. The MAC address is on the first line so I missed it. But I was able to see the MAC address of my mobile (Siemens S56) throught the phoen itself so I never thought twice. That\'s why I didn\'t know my phoen has TWO channel numbers: channel 1 for \"Serial\" and Channel 3 for \"voice gateway\". For the longest time, I have channel 3 in rfcomm.conf file. Instead, it should be channel 1.

-In the network dial-up applet, change the flow control from 1 sec to something longer (I set it at 35 sec now). I don\'t knwo if this actually matters but it looked as if helped when I set up the Irda dail-up for the same phone.

Good Luck and thanks to Tumnus and everyone that helped out.

Frank W

[ccrandal]

Can\'t find the MAC... dug around /proc looking for it but came up with nothing.  Since sdptool is not displaying anything but an error, I\'m not sure how else to get that info.  I think I\'ll give the Affix drivers a try and hope they don\'t collide with the bluez drivers already on the ROM.

Thanks,
Curt

[lwong]

Curt,

Since you are trying to find the MAC address of your phone, can\'t you find out that through your phone? For the Siemens S56 I have, I went to Bluetooth menu, click on \"My BT name\". It will display both the name and the MAC address.

Frank W

[ccrandal]

I thought it would be looking for the MAC of the Bluetooth card since I\'m not necessarily setting up a connection to a phone as of yet.  I just want the bluetooth manager to recognize the card.

Thanks
Curt

[ccrandal]

By the way, susp-resume-0.9-3.1 seems to have been the culprit preventing me from turning my Z off after its installation.  This is also true after a complete reinstall of the Cacko Qt 1.20 ROM.

Curt

[ccrandal]

OK, this is messed up.  I installed susp-resume-0.9-3.1.  After that, hitting the On/Off button causes the Z to freeze for many minutes.  I need to yank to battery out for 5sec to get it to reboot.
After installing this package, I also noticed that the behavior of the \"/\" key changes in Qkonsole.  Before install, it works as it should by printing a comma when it is pressed of a \"/\" if shift is pressed with it.  After install, it\'s the exact opposite.

I then uninstalled susp-resume-0.9-3.1.  The Qkonsole behavior is the same, however, the On/Off button just does nothing.  So, while it may not freeze, I still need to yank the battery out to kill it.

The ONLY good thing to come of this is that `sdptool browse` and `hciconfig` now return meaningful data.  This is really messed up.  If I had more time and more experience with these pieces of software, I\'d be more than willing to help fix this... I just hope the next version of either the rom, the suspend packages, bluez drivers, whatever fix this.

I now need to reflash my ROM for the 5th time and try this all over again... this time staying away from susp-resume completely (maybe just using susp-resume-bluez).  If it doesn\'t work, I\'ll try the Affix drivers.  If that fails, I try another ROM.  If that fails, there\'ll be a Z SL-C750 up for sale soon!

Thanks all
Curt

[albertr]

Before putting your Z up for sale, try another bluetooth card. While new Socket cards are perfectly fine, they are serial cards and require running hciattach. Again, nothing wrong with that, but it might be a little bit more complex than you can manage. Some other bluetooth cards use dedicate drivers and  alittle easier to setup...
-albertr

[ccrandal]

Any recommendations?  I really like this Socket card since it doesn\'t stick out.

Thanks,
Curt

[tumnus]

The Socket CF Bluetooth Rev 2.5 does work fine with the included BlueZ hci_uart driver, but the Cacko ROM seems to have a different implementation of the Bluetooth scripts and a few other things.

This is probably why the bluez-csr-serial and susp-resume ipks do not work with the Cacko ROM. I think maslovsk needs to take a look at the script I changed in the bluez-csr-serial ipk (Which is reference in my Bluetooth howto BTW) to see how it can be done with the Cacko ROM.

I like the Socket card too, but I have the previous revision which is completely different internally and works fine with a different driver.