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No Bluetooth

Posted: 10 Aug 2017, 15:00
by Kulle
How can I install/use Bluetouth in Porteus.
The Bluetouth icon does not exist on the screen
Thanks for the help

No Bluetooth

Posted: 11 Aug 2017, 19:46
by wread
@Kulle
Please state which Porteus edition you are running. Someone who has bluetooth working on your platform will give you a hand...

Regards!

Edit: Most probably your bluetooth daemon is not running. To use it you will need a bluetooth dongle or similar device.
If your system uses initd try as root in a console "/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart".
You should get as response "Starting Bluetooth services: bluetoothd hciconfig sdptool hciattach" or similar B)

Good luck!

No Bluetooth

Posted: 12 Aug 2017, 17:26
by Kulle
Thanks for the answer.
I use Vers. 3.2 64bit Xfce
In terminal:
su
toor
/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart
Answer:
bash: /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart No permission

No permission?? And now?

No Bluetooth

Posted: 12 Aug 2017, 17:41
by Kulle
Addition:
In terminal
sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart
guest
Answer:
bash: /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart : not found

No Bluetooth

Posted: 12 Aug 2017, 18:35
by Blaze
Kulle, you are need to run as root user

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su
toor 
/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart

No Bluetooth

Posted: 12 Aug 2017, 21:22
by Ed_P
Blaze wrote:
12 Aug 2017, 18:35
Kulle, you are need to run as root user

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su
toor 
/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart
Kulle wrote:
12 Aug 2017, 17:26
su
toor
/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart
Answer:
bash: /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth restart No permission

No Bluetooth

Posted: 12 Aug 2017, 22:11
by ncmprhnsbl
try this , as root user:

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chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth

/etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start
edit: you might want to install blueman as well:

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usm -g blueman

No Bluetooth

Posted: 18 Aug 2017, 13:19
by wread
Check if your rc.bluetooth is executable. I guess it is not.
If so do as root a chmod x to /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth.
Good luck!

No Bluetooth

Posted: 16 May 2018, 00:36
by francois
Hello everybody. A little necrobumping:

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root@porteus:~# usm -g blueman

 The following items were found.
 Choose an number to confirm. 
 ctrl+c to quit

1) blueman-2.0.4-x86_64-1.txz
#? 1

Processing:   blueman-2.0.4-x86_64-1.txz 
Ignored libraries: 

Libraries required:  7
Libraries found in system: 7
Libraries to resolve: 0

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root@porteus:~# chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth
root@porteus:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start
Starting Bluetooth services:  bluetoothd hciconfig sdptool hciattach
root@porteus:~# 

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root@porteus:~# blueman-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/blueman-manager", line 11, in <module>
    import dbus
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/__init__.py", line 77, in <module>
    import dbus.types as types
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/types.py", line 6, in <module>
    from _dbus_bindings import (
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_dbus_bindings.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_DecodeUTF8
root@porteus:~# 
Any suggestion?

No Bluetooth

Posted: 16 May 2018, 02:27
by ncmprhnsbl
what are you using, francois? porteus version and DE please! ;)

No Bluetooth

Posted: 17 May 2018, 00:11
by francois
xfce porteus 4.0 rc4, if you prefer I might migrate to final. It is just that I did not had the time.

Thanks.

No Bluetooth

Posted: 17 May 2018, 02:06
by ncmprhnsbl
ok, i'm not sure the slackware 14.2 package for blueman that usm pulls will work on 4.0 (maybe it does)
at the very least it needs dbus-python..
or here: Blueman for Porteus 4.0 xfce is a module built from current packages (with python3)

No Bluetooth

Posted: 17 May 2018, 14:25
by francois
I will try that. Maybe as you write dbus is missing. If not I willl try the module you propose or simply both.
Thanks so much.

No Bluetooth

Posted: 18 May 2018, 04:12
by ncmprhnsbl
should mention also: porteus 4.0 has a cheatcode: bluetooth that will start the the daemon at boot,
as well as a section in porteus settings centre that can also control it(turn on/off and have start at boot)