wilco1973 Posted February 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Hmmm.... I compile my own kernels in Gentoo and it was a case of getting all the right modules in there to make it work. Not sure what they've put into the Mandrake kernel. Might be worth trying to compile a vanilla kernel and seeing if that works, obviously keeping the mandrake kernel around so you can go back to it. Other ideas: go into the Mandrake Control Centre and see if it is starting bluetooth as a service at boot. It might be worth rebooting with your dongle plugged in to the usb port as Mandrake might only load the required kernel modules that way. So I would - plug in the dongle, reboot, run hcitool hci0 up and then hcitool scan, if it doesn't work investigate how Mandrake actually adresses bluetooth in the kernel, and then try a vanilla kernel if you can't figure it out. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i am a newbie this is not something that i can do :o when i shutdown, i see bluetooth service being terminated so it is started, my bluetooth dongle is always in my PC... i am losing it, i want it to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 Ok, I'm not just saying this, it is true: compiling your own kernel is easy, even if you're a n00b (I still consider myself to be one). I wrote a tutorial a while ago: http://www.simonfrost.co.za/tut_kernel.html Check it out - not difficult. Challenging... maybe. But not difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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