Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

Resisting the temptation to rant, I'll just say that I'm struggling to get bluetooth working under Fedora. I can get the hci device started (hciconfig hci0 up, surprisingly enough!) and see the phone via hcitool (and another device only identified as "SuperDuper", which no-one in the lab is owning up to owning ;-). I can even get an RFCOMM device connected to the phone in question using sdptool. From there it goes downhill.

Gnome-bluetooth-manager doesn't see anything when I do a scan. Gnokii seems fixated on /dev/ttyS0, and infuriatingly impossible to move to any other TTY port. There doesn't seem to be a lot else to use. A quick google doesn't show up much. I'd appreciate an email from anyone that has been able to successfully transfer their phonebook from one phone to another via bluetooth in Gnome, or Fedora, or Linux, or anything that isn't proprietary.