Bluez-utils for opensuse 11.2?

J_Szucs · 03-26-2010, 12:27 AM

I used to share my internet connection for my palm via bluetooth dund on opensuse 10.1.

Now I upgraded to opensuse 11.2, and have been trying to configure the same for 5 hours, without success.

The problem is: dund seems to be in bluez-utils, but this package does not seem to be available from the official opensuse 11.2 repo. It is available from an unofficial one, but that is version 3.x and it conflicts with the version 4.x package of bluez. So, I either have bluez 4.x or bluez-utils 3.x, whilst I would need both.

Is there a solution for this problem, or any other way to share internet via bluetooth?

(All previous howtos seem to be rendered useless with the recent "developments" of bluez, but, hey, file sending to my palm still works to some extent, so, there is much room for more "developments" until bluetooth is rendered completely unuseable).

Edit:
In a changelog at a RedHat site, I found that the bluez-utils package was integrated into the bluez package, and later some tools like dund were split out into a bluez-compat package. Maybe the same happened to bluez in opensuse, too.
But I have both the bluez and the bluez-compat packages installed, and hcid and sdpd are nowhere. Where did they disappear during the very important re-organization of bluez tools?

Edit2:
Kind of solved. Hcid was renamed to bluetoothd, and probably the other tools and config files changed names, too. Old howto's are in fact useless, and I am about to sacrifize my next days in order to become a blootooth expert just to configure this wrecked internet sharing.

Mr-Bisquit · 03-27-2010, 01:22 PM

If you are goping to use a newer package, build from source and upgrade to what is called. You can have multiple libraries if the are not conflicting.

J_Szucs · 03-27-2010, 03:48 PM

Finally I succeeded.

These are the docs that I found during this 24 hours project as containing some relevant information (out of hundreds of obsolete docs on internet):

Sry, I cannot access my bookmarks, as the menu bar of konqueror has disappeared. Funny, yeah?

This is how things go on opensuse 11. And I have no more time for this mess.