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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 + bluetooth

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject	Re: Ubuntu 14.04 + bluetooth
Date	2016-10-31 10:29 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Keith wrote:
> On 31/10/16 12:27, Paul wrote:
>> Keith wrote:
>>>
>>> Nice toolset, but sadly the problem persists - can't see the phone,
>>> and the phone can't see the laptop.
>>
>> Another possibility, is it's set up a Personal Area Network,
>> but this article makes it look like some proactive
>> steps must be taken. This is unlikely to happen by accident.
>>
>> http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN
>>
>> You could try ifconfig and see if
>> there is anything suspicious in there.
>>
>> This would be on an "ordinary" networking
>> case, with only an Ethernet.
>>
>>    ifconfig
>>
>>    eth0
>>    lo
>>
>> Whereas the PAN might add a bnep0 to it.
> 
> I'm showing this:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ec:8e:b5:2a:d3:f0
>           inet addr:192.168.0.10  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::584:5962:e5ba:1867/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:5953106 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:3381867 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:8086917395 (8.0 GB)  TX bytes:489001664 (489.0 MB)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
>           RX packets:22454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:22454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
>           RX bytes:2105112 (2.1 MB)  TX bytes:2105112 (2.1 MB)
> 
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 44:1c:a8:aa:27:1d
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:9708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:433543
>           TX packets:15781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:1595524 (1.5 MB)  TX bytes:3104515 (3.1 MB)
>           Interrupt:39
> 
> And while there is a USB3 port on this machine, nothing is using it.
> 
> Stumped, I am!

Work your way through an Arch article.
They're pretty good for this sort of thing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bluetooth

    Paul

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    Re: Ubuntu 14.04 + bluetooth Keith <me@privacy.net> - 2016-10-31 10:24 +0000
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