Re: BNEP problem, hardware dependent?

Hi Stefan,

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Stefan Seyfried
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

recently I was changing my work machine. When I wanted to do my usual
setup (hacked up test-network script) to connect to the internet via my
mobile phone, I got "bnep error".

It is this piese of code in network/connection.c:

270         if (rsp->ctrl != BNEP_SETUP_CONN_RSP)
271                 return TRUE;
272
273         r = ntohs(rsp->resp);
274
275         if (r != BNEP_SUCCESS) {
276                 error("bnep failed");
277                 goto failed;
278         }

Weird, are you sure that it is failing in one of those checks? It
never happened to me before, you just switch dongle, right?

I then found out that it did work with some dongles, and it did not
work with others. Apparently there was no connection to the "quality"
of the dongles (but I have to admit, that AFAIR all were broadcom or
worse), there was a very cheap one that did work and more expensive
ones that didn't.

Make sure you did paired with device before attempting to connect, you
can also mark it as trusted so it does ask for confirmation, if it
still fail could you please send us the hcidump and bluetooth output?

I always thought that the "supported profiles" list on the packaging
was just a "what we licensed in the driver" list and that all hardware
could do everything.

Am I wrong?

Nope, you are correct, the hardware should not affect much the
profiles, of course profiles depending on things like SCO may be
affected by the hardware but that's it. IIRC the only special
requirement for BNEP is that the MTU should be configured to 1691.
(this is easy to check with hcidump)


-- 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Engenheiro de Computação