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Bluetooth and Karmic

Asked by GordonH

I've plugged in my bluetooth dongle and hcitool gives the following output

gordon@gordon-laptop:~$ hcitool devDevices:
 hci0 00:18:E4:08:B5:97
gordon@gordon-laptop:~$ hcitool scanScanning ...
 00:1F:5C:85:C6:15 Maureen
 00:1E:A4:71:1E:26 Gordon
I've tried scanning from the mobile "Gordon" but it doesn't find my laptop

From searching it looks like I need to run "blueman", but that command in terminal produces "blueman command not find".

Help please.

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Best Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) said : 		#1

are you sure the laptop of your laptop is discoverable?

apparently blueman is not available officially in ubuntu but I'm sure you can find it in the ppa of someone.

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GordonH (gordon-and-maureen) said : 		#2

Thanks Baptiste Mille-Mathias, that solved my question.

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GordonH (gordon-and-maureen) said : 		#3

Thanks for the feedback Baptiste.

In fact the problem seemed to solve itself (from my point of view).

As I'm using Karmic, I reboot more often than with a stable release, and after one such reboot the BlueTooth icon appeared in the status bar as if by magic.

I've no problem now with connecting