Bluetooth

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Bluetooth and related Topics

Note: this page is still work in progress, stay tuned!

Input Devices

• How to connect your input devices using kinputwizard.
• More good information is on the Bluez Wiki Input Devices HOWTO Page.

RFCOMM Devices (aka "Dialup")

• How to setup rfcomm devices.

HOWTOs

Most of the HOWTOs linked from the Bluez.org Wiki apply pretty well to recent openSUSE releases, so unless we have more extensive documentation here, it might be a good idea to read those.

Gnome

There is a bug in in 10.3 where the hidd command has been disabled , and you are not able pair bluetooth devices. See bugzilla [[1]] This was not a problem in 10.2. To work around this, do not enable bluetooth from YaST. Re-install Gnome bluetooth packages as well as KDE Kinputwizard. run gnome tools from the control panel, and use kinputwizard to pair your device. Once paired you can use gnome bluetooth applet as per normal.

For 10.3, you can grab an updated bluez-gnome package from GNOME:Community. This will allow you to pair and connect input devices. Install gnome-vfs-obexftp in order to browse obex serving devices.