Substitute for the Gnome bluetooth / Or how to
properly manage your bluetooth (obex) connections in Gnome
I connect my Nokia 9300i mobile phone over bluetooth every now and
then. In that connection, every often I do experience problems with
properly connecting the device to my notebook running Debian
Squeeze/Sid Unstable on it's Desktop.
Until recently it really annoyed me that I had to loose time
restring the Linux system sometimes when an access to the mobile
device was failing, without any good trackable error message.
The connection error I have experienced quite often when I was
trying to browse my Nokia 9300i cellphone using the bluetooth
protocol on Linux was:
"the name org.openobex.client was not provided"
You can read about a similar
error
to the one encountered by me when using bluetooth on my Debian
Linux in debian bugs mailing list on osdir
The way I solved the issues with connecting over bluetooth on Linux
until recently was by rebooting the whole Linux system
(dumb)!.
Some other things I try to get arround the bluetooth connection
errors was by trying to re-enable my bluetooth notebook embedded
device on my Lenovo Thinkpad with command:
root@noah:~# echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
root@noah:~# echo enable >
/proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
I alsy tried to physically remove the
bluetooth module,
rfcomm and a few other modules which were preventing the
removal with
rmmod of the bluetooth module.
However this solution did't help either .. To solve the issues I
tried few other stuff one of which was installing
libobexftp0
and obexftp since my Nokia 9300i uses the
obex protocol to communicate with the computer through
bluetooth
I have to note that so far I have used the embedded general gnome
application Gnome Bluetooth by using
the bluetooth-applet .
Well all my worries came to end finally by simply using
another piece of bluetooth
communication software callde blueman
Since I have installed that handy software bluetooth is working
perfectly fine everytime with my mobile. I warmly recommend to
everybody out there to switch to
the blueman which is a substitute for
the old crappy gnome-bluetooth pack
check out the up-mentioned provided website.
It's probably also worthy to say that the
blueman app is written
in python.
Well I'm pretty happy now whilst using blueman, hopefully you'll
enjoy it too as well as solve your bluetooth issues !
:)