Hi all,

I'm running Fedora Core 4, 64 bit, kernel 2.6.11, gnome desktop.

I have a USB bluetooth dongle which I would like to use to connect to my phone etc. A few days ago, I opened bluetooth manager, it detected the phone, transferred files, everything was fine.

Today, it persists in telling me 'could not find bluetooth devices on the system'. Sure enough, the usb dongle is now listed on usbview as 'unknown device'. The dongle itself is fine, it works on the windows partition.

I have checked that bluetooth services are started, all as it should be. Rebooting doesn't help.

So, any suggestions?

Laura.

Done anything major lately? Kernel upgrades for instance? I've just had a pretty major USB problem myself which I solved by having a second play with the internals of my case, moving stuff around, cleaning up the wires and bumping stuff the way I may have accidentally bumped it the first time and ta-da! Problem solved

Could be something simple like that for you too, anything you can think of?

No, I haven't changed anything! That's why it's so strange

Sort of, my setup has gone a tad haywire lately as well and I really don't know why. I've fixed my USB problem but I still have a Bluetooth problem that I've had for a couple of months also, different though. My dongle is recognised correctly and I can ping my phone, but it won't let me connect to it I always get permission denied. Try doing this for me, it'll let us know whether the dongle is working or not for sure. In a terminal:
If the first one doesn't display what we want it to then the second one won't work. Best of luck

$ hciconfig
bash: hciconfig: command not found

$ hcitool scan
Device is not available: Success

That's weird that hciconfig doesn't exist. Yum has a GUI doesn't it? Could you check to make sure you have all the Bluetooth packages installed? Another thing to check after that is was any bluetooth daemons started on boot? Try running this, check that hcid is running:
It should print a PID, if it doesn't then that's your problem. Let me know how you go with that anyway, it'll help

Yes, that's fine.

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