Return-Path: From: Szymon Janc To: Another Sillyname Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Multiple dongles...how to prioritise Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:43:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20721420.im42bRLFJ9@leonov> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Thursday 17 of December 2015 12:55:25 Another Sillyname wrote: > Firstly can I apologise if this is meant purely as a developer list, > the bluez website directs end users to this list as the place for > help. > > I have a PC with an inbuilt Intel AC7260 combo wifi/BT card. This > card will NOT support the HID profile and appears as hci0. > > I want to use my BT keyboard and mouse on a multi boot machine and > have spent the last few days getting this working across different OS > boots. > > However now adding a DBT-120 dongle flashed to HID firmware works fine > once linux loads and I logon.....however I cannot enter the password > to the logon screen unless I remote to the box and hciconfig hci1 up, > I realise I could script this but would rather the DBT-120 was hci0 so > it would happen by default. > > Is there a way to 'force' dongles to load in a specific order? I don't think there is a way to pin USB BT dongle to specific hciX. > Thanks in advance You may check AutoEnable option in policy section of main.conf file. Setting it to true should auto enable (any) dongle after it is initialized by bluetoothd. -- BR Szymon Janc