Another 6.1R on a ThinkPad X60s

James O'Gorman james at netinertia.co.uk
Fri May 12 03:22:14 PDT 2006


Tobias Roth wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:36:50AM +0100, James O'Gorman wrote:
>> Tobias Roth wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:12:29PM -0700, Michael Collette wrote:
>>>> When starting up /etc/rc.d/bluetooth I get back "ERROR: Unsupported 
>>>> device:".  I thought that was informative.  I'm guessing the bluetooth 
>>>> device in question is the Broadcom (0x0a5c) BCM2045B (0x2110) which 
>>>> comes up attached to ugen0.  I haven't made any source code tweaks to 
>>>> usbdevs for this one as I'm pretty bluetooth ignorant.  Got a Palm Treo 
>>>> to test on it if I can get the service up and going.
>>> try turning the bluetooth device on first. My T30 had a little button
>>> below the LCD screen to do that, my T43p has dev.acpi_ibm.0.bluetooth.
>> The switch is on on mine, and dev.acpi_ibm.0.bluetooth is set to 1, but
>> /etc/rc.d/bluetooth still says "ERROR: Unsupported device:"...
> 
> ok, I'll make a wild guess:
> 
> you are doing 
>   /etc/rc.d/bluetooth start
> instead of
>   /etc/rc.d/bluetooth start ubt0
> 
> if so, please take a look at the bluetooth section in the handbook,
> it told me everything I needed to know to get bluetooth working.

Oops, you're right. I hadn't got as far as reading the handbook on the
Bluetooth section yet, but your suggestion did it. I now get Bluetooth
device messages on the console!

I'll go check out the handbook to see how to actually make it work :-)

James


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