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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:41:13 +0200

Hi Jonathan,

> I have a pretty remedial question involving setting up bluettoth in 
> Linux, but I don't think that I've seen any answers in the documentation 
> or mailing list. 
> 
> I'm using kernel 2.6.11 with a LinkSys USBBT100 adaptor.  The adaptor 
> can scan and ping other bluetooth devices with l2ping, but I'm having 
> problems getting bnep0 recognized as a network interface.
> 
> ifconfig bnep0 returns
> bnep0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> 
> The fedora utility sees bnep0, but cannot activate it and returns
> SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> when I try to deactivate it.
> 
> I get the same results when I use bluez/benp compiled into the kernel or 
> loading them as modules.  /var/log/messages has the bluetooth messages:
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.7
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.5
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer 
> initialized
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) 
> ver 1.2
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol 
> multicast
> Mar 27 12:30:11 ma-jbredin kernel: Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface 
> Emulation) ver 1.1
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions to get bnep0 off the ground?

what about using "pand --connect" before you try to use "ifconfig".

Regards

Marcel




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