Anyone have a USB Bluetooth adapter working?

[John Doe]

Did I need to do a reboot?

Give it a try, then do those commands above:

modprobe rfcomm
hciconfig hci0 up

try just 'hciconfig' to probably get a list of rf (bluetooth) devices and make sure it's hci0

[edoc]

Did I need to do a reboot?

Give it a try, then do those commands above:

modprobe rfcomm
hciconfig hci0 up

try just 'hciconfig' to probably get a list of rf (bluetooth) devices and make sure it's hci0

sh-3.00# modprobe rfcomm

sh-3.00# hciconfig hci0 up
Can't get device info: No such device
sh-3.00# hciconfig
sh-3.00#

[tempestuous]

You probably need to create the necessary device node first, as debernardis explained.

mknod -m 666 /dev/rfcomm0 c 216 0

[edoc]

You probably need to create the necessary device node first, as debernardis explained.

mknod -m 666 /dev/rfcomm0 c 216 0

I am afraid that my eyes kinda glazed over before I got that far down his
text, sorry. javascript:emoticon(':oops:')

I ran all of these without error but since the rest of the text was related
to cellphone use I am not certain how to proceed for GPSdrive.

I did observe that the hcid command moved the location of the device
up one level in USB Viewer.

modprobe bluetooth
modprobe l2cap
modprobe rfcomm
modprobe hci_usb

mknod -m 666 /dev/rfcomm0 c 216 0

hcid

[edoc]

Here is the output of my /proc/bus/usb/devices file:

T: Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 6
B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.18.1 ehci_hcd
S: Product=EHCI Host Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.7
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=256ms

T: Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.18.1 uhci_hcd
S: Product=UHCI Host Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.2
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms

T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=16 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0483 ProdID=1307 Rev= 1.70
S: Manufacturer=Generic
S: Product=USBMass Storage Device
S: SerialNumber=ABCDEF0123456789
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms

T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 93/900 us (10%), #Int= 1, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.18.1 uhci_hcd
S: Product=UHCI Host Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.1
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms

T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=062a ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usbhid
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 4 Ivl=10ms

T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=07b8 ProdID=b02a Rev= 5.25
S: Product=Bluetooth USB Adapter
C:* #Ifs= 3 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 86mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 9 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 9 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 2 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 17 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 17 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 3 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 25 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 25 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 4 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 33 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 33 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 5 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 49 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 49 Ivl=1ms
I: If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=fe(app. ) Sub=01 Prot=00 Driver=(none)

T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.18.1 uhci_hcd
S: Product=UHCI Host Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=3d11 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=hp
S: Product=officejet 4200 series
S: SerialNumber=CN555GH39X
C:* #Ifs= 3 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=cc Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
E: Ad=03(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=84(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms
I: If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=07(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=87(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=88(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms
I: If#= 2 Alt= 1 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=d4 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=07(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=87(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 32 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=88(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 4 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=067b ProdID=2303 Rev= 3.00
S: Manufacturer=Prolific Technology Inc.
S: Product=USB-Serial Controller
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms

The problem is that it is not correct!

This file has devices recorded that are not currently connected.

Currently connected are a USB mouse, USB printer, USB bluetooth adapter,
and USB-to-CAT adapter cable to an Amateur Radio.

Is there a way to refresh this list? I am guessing that the unnecessary
device information may be interfering with the proper operation of the
USB-Bluetooth adapter and the USB-to-CAT adapter cable.

WDYT, please?

[edoc]

Still no joy getting at my USB adapter.

It happens to be a Bluetooth adapter but I am beginning to wonder if it is a
USB problem.

Are there any USB tools that might help me to talk to this thing, please?

I am again at that frustrated point where I have devices collecting dust because
Puppy cannot communicate with them.

USBview is interesting but useless to resolve problems in every case I have
tried -- I need something that will talk to USB devices that USBview "sees"
but flags in RED.