Bug 469177

Summary:	kdebluetooth (kde 3.5) can't find usb bluetooth adapter with last version of bluez
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Alexey Ilin <dencorpos>
Component:	Mobile Devices	Assignee:	Vladimir Botka <vbotka>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	rainer.klier
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Description Alexey Ilin 2009-01-24 12:34:17 UTC

User-Agent:       Opera/9.63 (X11; Linux i686; U; ru) Presto/2.1.1

With bluez from openSUSE 11.1 I can't send files over OBEX and syncing with my mobile using kbluetooth. I'm using kde 3.5.10.
The solution I found is to use bluez-utils from openSUSE 11.0.

My laptop is Samsung Q210.
It's bluetooth card is  "Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2 Bluetooth"
My system is openSUSE 11.1 which was fully updated from openSUSE 11.0

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openSUSE 11.1 with packages kdebluetooth and bluez
2. Boot computer and run kbluetooth

Actual Results:  
I got message that "Bluetooth service cannot start" or so.

Expected Results:  
Mobile devices that can be found must be viewed in kbluetooth'es window.

Comment 2 Vladimir Botka 2009-01-26 11:33:11 UTC

KDE issue. This is known problem with kbluetooth which makes this bug a duplicate of the 438956. At present the updated kbluetooth works with HID devices (mouse, kbd). As a workaround one can use bluetooth-applet from the bluez-gnome package which works for me also in KDE. There is a rich discussion about this issue in Bug 438956 and it is worth to try gnome bluetooth-applet first.

But there is another problem with the obex. It has never been possible to put files _from_ PC _to_ the device (handy, palm, ...) via obex. The obex reports in this case "the operation is not supported by the backend". So no sync can work with applications which use obex as a transfer before this issue is not solved.

I am working on another "Bug 462866 - bluetooth sync with palm no longer works". This should be a problem with the virtual serial port setting over the bluetooth. To solve this problem can help to sync with any application which uses serial port connection.

So I make this bug a duplicate of 438956 and add the reporter as a CC in 462866.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 438956 ***

Comment 3 Rainer Klier 2009-01-26 11:47:45 UTC

i think this bug is a duplicate of bug #450107.
because bug #450107 is about Kbluetooth in KDE3 not working.
and bug #438956 is about kbluetooth4 in KDE4 not working.
and this bug  #469177 is also about KDE 3.5 and NOT KDE 4.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450107 ***

Comment 4 Vladimir Botka 2009-01-26 12:48:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> i think this bug is a duplicate of bug #450107.
> because bug #450107 is about Kbluetooth in KDE3 not working.
> and bug #438956 is about kbluetooth4 in KDE4 not working.
> and this bug  #469177 is also about KDE 3.5 and NOT KDE 4.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450107 ***

Rainer, this is OK to duplicate it in bug 450107. In the end the solution will be the same for KDE3 and KDE4. The problem is in the communication between the kbluetooth applet and the new bluetooth driver in the openSUSE 11.1 which is desktop manager independent.

Comment 5 Rainer Klier 2009-01-26 13:23:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > 
> > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450107 ***
> 
> Rainer, this is OK to duplicate it in bug 450107. In the end the solution will
> be the same for KDE3 and KDE4. The problem is in the communication between the

are you sure?
because in bug #438956#c75 Tom Patzig solved the issues with kde4 and closed bug #438956.
whereas bug #450107 (with kde3) is still open.

toms suggestion is to use kde4.
so it seems there will be no real solution for kde3.

Comment 6 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2009-01-27 16:06:10 UTC

for KDE3 the solution is "use bluetooth-applet from bluez-gnome", unless some volunteer fixes kdebluetooth3