Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings somewhere then try that again. If that fails, see if you can make your computer discoverable and try taking the computer over with the cell phone. Some of these pieces of equipment really don't work.
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so > please bear with me. > > I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. > I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. > I have an LG420 through Tracphone. > I have installed Bluez. > > I have turned bluetooth on at the phone and tried to search for other > bluetooth devices (my desktop box). It does not fins any devices. > > Following some documentation that I found elsewhere, I tried: > > # hcitool dev > Devices: > hci0 00:15:83:4B:C7:1C > > # hcitool scan > Scanning ... > 74:A7:22:01:5D:ED LG 420G > > # hcitool inq > Inquiring ... > 74:A7:22:01:5D:ED clock offset: 0x2326 class: 0x520204 > > # l2ping 74:A7:22:01:5D:ED > Can't connect: Permission denied > > > So, the desktop seems to find the phone, but can not make a connection to it. > Is there something that I still need to do on the phone so that I can connect > to it from the desktop? What about connection the other way? > > All that I need to do at this time is to be able to transfer files between the > desktop and the phone, primarily photos and .mp3 files. > > I don't know what to do next. > > All help appreciated. > > Marc > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1112041818300.66...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
