BeagleBone and Bluetooth

[Brion Fuller II]

I have been trying to get the beaglebone and a bluetooth dongle to work together.  The beaglebone does reconize the bluetooth device but when I try to bring the state up I get a statment saying that RF-KILL will not allow it.  I see the rfkill proccess in lsmod and the bluetooth device.  I have tried the command "rfkill unblock all" and it cannot reconize the command.  I checked in the /dev folder and rfkill is in there and i tried going into that directory and typed "./rfkill unblock all" and I get a permission denied.  I cannot figure out how to go about this.  Thank you for the help in advance.  I did check the other post and none had a solution that helped at all.

[Igor Yeremin]

The rfkill command line tool is not installed by default, use opkg
install rfkill
If it can't unblock the bluetooth device, check if it's blocked by
connman in /var/lib/connman/settings

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[Brion Fuller II]

Yeah i thought that would be a problem but opkg install rfkill didn't work.  It couldn't find a package for it.  I looked in the /var/lib/conman/settings and the bluetooth is enabled false but doesn't that change when you bring up the interface.

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[Brion Fuller II]

I changed the setting to true and now I get either and rx error or timeout error.

[jseitz]

Were you able to resolve this? I have tried two separate adapters in my Beagle Bone and no love. One is a $30 Kensington and the other is a generic $10 one.

[Chrs2021]

If they are usb bluetooth dongles i had to recompile the kernel with usb DMA disabled. only then would the bluetooth would work.

[Koen Kooi]

Op 15 mei 2012, om 21:33 heeft Chrs2021 het volgende geschreven:

> If they are usb bluetooth dongles i had to recompile the kernel with usb DMA disabled. only then would the bluetooth would work.

Even that isn't always true, my bluetooth dongles don't work in either scenario :(

[tripzero]

My dongles don't work either using the 3.2.21-psp15 kernel on ubuntu.  rfkill says it's unblocked but "hciconfig hci0 up" will time out and dmesg says "Bluetooth: hci0 command tx timeout"

[johnath...@gmail.com]

How did you change the false to true

[java...@gmail.com]

Did you ever get this to work?

The ASUS Bluetooth dongle that works fine under Ubuntu on the rPi isn't recognized by either ArchLinux or Ubuntu on the BeagleBone Black.