Return-Path: From: Cinaed Simson Subject: Re: bluetooth faq To: "Stotland, Inga" , "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" References: <14979653-a357-02f1-25f3-a86231a608d2@GMail.COM> <1533066378.3353.13.camel@intel.com> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 13:15:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1533066378.3353.13.camel@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/31/2018 12:46 PM, Stotland, Inga wrote: > Hi Cinaed, > > On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 21:07 -0700, Cinaed Simson wrote: >> The FAQ on the Wiki appears to indicate that you need to build the >> source is a kernel version > 2.6. >> >> However, the build fails on Jessie running kernel version 3.16.51-3 >> because of no ell. >> >> Not big deal. >> >> I was able to download it and build it but the ell web page suggests I >> need the latest kernel version - 4.17 for things to work. >> >> I haven't actually installed ell to see if that was only requirement for >> the build which wasn't mentioned in the README. >> >> So am I wasting my time the release from >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git >> >> ? I don't mind installing additional packages from source provided it >> fixes the known problems with bluetooth. >> >> I am currently using 5.49 from >> >> https://github.com/Vudentz/BlueZ.git >> >> It doesn't require ell to build. >> >> The following URL >> >> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/bluetooth_cryptography_bug/ >> >> which is what got me started looking for information and possible fixes. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> -- Cinaed >> > > If you want to leave out the requirement for ell, you can run > bootstrap-configure with --enable-mesh=no option. Alternatively, you > can remove line "--enable-mesh" in your bootstrap-configure file > altogether. > > Regards, > Inga > Hi Inga - thanks for the reply. I misinterpreted what I read on the ell web page. I was able to build ell and the git version of bluez. -- Cinaed