Bluetooth issues on "Headless" pandora

[natarajsn]

Hi

I wanna use my Rebirth Pandora as a Bluetooth HID keyboard, now that my display is bust. I am mostly on Linux-Swat's SL4P Slackware.

Really tough to boot into SZ/ Angstrom. I need to remove battery and then R button + 4th option in blind mode to get SuperZaxxon.

Sl4P is ok for me though.

Having bluez-4.91-arm-2.txz.

"bluetoothctl" command don't get my default controller.

Please find the following and do suggest me your ideas.

Regards

Nataraj

nataraj@DarkStar:~$ ps 1206
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1206 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd

nataraj@DarkStar:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 33554 0
snd_mixer_oss 13345 1 snd_pcm_oss
uinput 5928 0
aes_generic 28028 1
arc4 1005 2
wl1251_sdio 3945 0
wl1251 67754 1 wl1251_sdio
rfcomm 29424 0
bnep 9220 2
bluetooth 131586 10 bnep,rfcomm
ipv6 227301 12
g_ether 33488 0
fuse 57038 1
dm_mod 57863 0
mac80211 204782 2 wl1251,wl1251_sdio
cfg80211 150486 2 mac80211,wl1251
ads7846 8678 0

nataraj@DarkStar:~$ sudo /usr/pandora/scripts/op_bluetooth.sh
Password:
++ grep '^hci'
++ /usr/sbin/hciconfig
++ cut -d : -f 1
+ INTERFACE=
+ LOCK=.op_btenabled
+ cd /root
+ '[' '' = startup ']'
+ /usr/sbin/hciconfig ''
+ grep UP
Can't get device info: No such device
+ sudo /usr/pandora/scripts/op_bluetooth_work.sh 1
Texas module LMP version : 0x03
Texas module LMP sub-version : 0x1126
internal version freeze: 38
software version: 2
chip: brf6300 (4)
Opening firmware file: /lib/firmware/brf6300.bin
Uploading firmware...
Firmware upload successful.
Sending speed change command..
Device setup complete
+ pgrep bluetoothd
1206
+ echo

+ '[' 0 -ne 1 ']'
+ sudo /usr/sbin/hciconfig down
+ sudo /usr/sbin/hciconfig up pscan
+ sudo /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
+ touch .op_btenabled

nataraj@DarkStar:~$ bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# devices
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# devices [bluetooth]# devices on
Too many arguments
[bluetooth]# agent
Missing on/off/capability argument
[bluetooth]# agent on
Agent registration enabled
[bluetooth]# agent [bluetooth]# default-agent
No agent is registered
Usage: default-agent
[bluetooth]# default-agent
No agent is registered
[bluetooth]# default-agent [bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available

 

[levi]

Good question, I've never had any success getting bluetooth working from the terminal when I last tried some years ago, which has frankly put me off trying again. I never really had a reason to use it on my computers that don't run network manager, but on my Pandora that did run network manager, it was pretty easy to connect to a bluetooth keyboard or joystick.

 

[PowerGod]

You can have a look at the scripts inside btdun.pnd to see how to start bluetooth from command line (at least on SuperZaxxon).

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