Horty Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 HI, I'm trying to connect my Tungsten T via bluetooth to Linux (Mandrake 10 OE) so I can use it to access email etc, but with no luck. The only instructions/HOWTOs I have found are based on Fedora so I wonder if the Mandrake method is different. I can get Linux to 'see' the Palm and vice-versa, and can l2ping the Palm. Has anyone successfully connected via Mandrake 10 OE? Regards, Horty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 What errors are you getting? Are you using kdebluetooth? Run it from a console and see what erros it gives. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horty Posted September 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 No, I'm not using KDEbluetooth. I did download the rpm, but when I attempted installation, it needed other files, which I wasn't sure where they could be accessed, and how many files were needed. Using instructions from an article titled 'Internet Access via Bluetooth on Linux" from this address : http://www.metacon.ca/bcs/view.php?page=bluetooth, I got my bluetooth dongle to recognise the Palm. I then typed in hcid (as root), followed by sdpd. On typing sdpd, I noticed the following message : Sep 17 20:52:45 localhost sdpd[5172]: init_server: binding L2CAP socket: Address already in use Sep 17 20:52:45 localhost sdpd[5172]: main: Server initialization failed Not sure where to go from here. Horty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 not an expert (or anything even vaguely close...) but could there be some other bluetooth software that's hoggin your bluetooth dongle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Mandrake uses urpmi to install software (see Faqs). There is no need for you to hunt for missing files. Just do (as root): urpmi kdebluetooth. That should do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horty Posted September 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Thanks for your replies. Devries, I tried 'urpmi kdebluetooth', and got this : no package named kdebluetooth so I tried the entire name of the kdebluetooth package, and got this message : Some package requested cannot be installed: kdebluetooth-0.0.cvs20040302-3mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libopenobex-1.0.so.1) (Y/n) I will continue to investigate. Horty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horty Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Update. Managed to install Kdebluetooth and dependancy. Am now busily trying to work it out. Horty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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