[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#440078: bluez-utils: cannot pair with my phone

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:28:54PM -0300, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Package: bluez-utils
> Version: 3.13-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Maybe it's entirely my fault, but I don't get my laptop paired
> with my mobile phone. The phone asks for a passcode, I enter
> 1234 (the one that is in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf), and get a
> "Pairing failed". README.Debian says, bluez-gnome provides a
> passkey agent, but I don't know how to find or use it (I'm
> using XFCE and/or the command line). The example program in C
> (are users really supposed to compile some code, put the result
> without control of the package management and without manual
> page to some place?) does not change the situation.
> 
> I remember, that I was able to pair my phone from another Debian
> machine with the same USB bluetooth adaptor some months ago. I
> do not remember, which software versions were on that machine,
> however. I can pair my phone with a N770, btw.

unfortunately as of now the only two passkeys agents available (to my knowledge
at least) are kdebluetooth and bluez-gnome.

filippo
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