[gentoo-user] after last update hciconfig disappeared

[John Covici]

Hi. After the last update of net-wireless/bluez hciconfig has
disappeared. Even downgrading did not bring it back, although it was
there in the previous release. How do I do hciconfig, scan and
friends now, or is there a way to get them back.

As a workaround I put an old one back just copying the binary, so I
could proceed, but there has got to be a better way.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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[Raffaele Belardi]

John Covici wrote:
> Hi. After the last update of net-wireless/bluez hciconfig has
> disappeared. Even downgrading did not bring it back, although it was
> there in the previous release. How do I do hciconfig, scan and
> friends now, or is there a way to get them back.
>
> As a workaround I put an old one back just copying the binary, so I
> could proceed, but there has got to be a better way.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bluetooth#Deprecated_method_using_hciconfig

The ebuild lets you specify an extra-tools USE flag, maybe that one gets them back.

raffaele

[Mick]

I'm on net-wireless/bluez-5.43-r1 with these USE flags:

Installed versions: 5.43-r1(09:55:34 02/05/17)(cups obex readline udev -
debug -deprecated -doc -experimental -extra-tools -selinux -systemd -test -
test-programs -user-session ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64"
ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7")

I still have hciconfig, hcitools, et al.

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Regards,
Mick

[John Covici]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:44:59 -0400,
Mick wrote:
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I did as well, till I upgraded to 5.44 and then even downgrading did
not bring back the tools.

[John Covici]

I tried that and it failed --some file is missing and I got lots of
warnings about upstream not supporting, etc.

[Foster McLane]

If you are just using the tools in your terminal, 'bluetoothctl' has replaced
those programs. If you are writing scripts with those commands, I do not
know of any worthy replacements besides using the DBus interface
manually.

Foster

[John Covici]

I need to make sure that hci0 is up before I start a program that
wants to use it and when I start the bluetooth service, hci0 is down.
How to put it up not using a terminal? Or how to get back those hci
commands?

[Foster McLane]

You can set 'AutoEnable=true' in your '/etc/bluetooth/main.conf' file.
It should be commented at the bottom.

Foster

[John Covici]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:31:56 -0400,

OK, I will try that out, never heard of that parameter before.

Thanks.

[Mick]

On Monday 27 Mar 2017 14:14:20 John Covici wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:31:56 -0400,
>
> Foster McLane wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 01:21:55PM -0400, John Covici wrote:

> > > I need to make sure that hci0 is up before I start a program that
> > > wants to use it and when I start the bluetooth service, hci0 is down.
> > > How to put it up not using a terminal? Or how to get back those hci
> > > commands?
> >

> > You can set 'AutoEnable=true' in your '/etc/bluetooth/main.conf' file.
> > It should be commented at the bottom.
>
> OK, I will try that out, never heard of that parameter before.
>
> Thanks.

Thank you I will need this too. What is the recommended way to initialize
only one device and not another, in case there are more than one bluetooth
devices on board? I am guessing AutoEnable=true will enable each and every
device physically connected at the time?
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Regards,
Mick