[Coco] Coco to PC cable

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, John W. Linville wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

>> On Thursday 12 March 2009, John W. Linville wrote:

>> >You should be running hciconfig, looking for output similar to this:

>> >

>> >hci0:	Type: USB

>> >	BD Address: 00:1F:3A:32:45:71 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1

>> >	UP RUNNING PSCAN

>> >	RX bytes:966 acl:0 sco:0 events:62 errors:0

>> >	TX bytes:3390 acl:0 sco:0 commands:62 errors:0

>>

>> And I get:

>> [root at coyote init.d]# hciconfig

>> hci0:   Type: USB

>>         BD Address: 11:11:11:11:11:11 ACL MTU: 672:3 SCO MTU: 48:1

>>         UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN

>>         RX bytes:1188 acl:0 sco:0 events:47 errors:0

>>         TX bytes:451 acl:0 sco:0 commands:47 errors:0

>>

>> >FWIW, my device seems to disappear with 2.6.29-rc7-wl, but I can see

>> >it when running the stock F10 kernel, 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64.

>> >Perhaps it has been broken upstream, or perhaps my 2.6.29-rc7-wl config

>> >is lacking some magic, dunno.  In any case, I'd advise you to try to

>> >get things working with a stock Fedora kernel and then proceed from

>> >there. :-)

>>

>> Looks like I need to somehow set a 'mac address' aka BD?  Or is that hard

>> coded in these things?  From hciconfig's --help screen:

>>         putkey     <bdaddr>     Store link key on the device

>>         delkey     <bdaddr>     Delete link key from the device

>> I assume these are the commands to change it.  The question then is what

>> to?

>>

>> Should it not be something from this line in an lsusb -v:

>> 0e5e:6622=00:0e:5e:66:22:00, and assign the 2nd one I bought to

>> 00:0e:5e:66:22:01 etc?  This would be roughly following the usually

>> assigned MAC addressing of an ethernet card I think.

>

>Very odd -- I would definitely think that it would be hard-coded on

>the device.

>

>Anyway, I'm not sure putkey and delkey are the right commands for

>changing that.  But since you probably don't have tons of Bluetooth

>devices around the house, a bogus MAC address is no big deal (so long

>as the device actually works).

>

>> >Hth!

>>

>> Yes John, except for the patently bogus 'BD' address, we at least look

>> alike. So I guess I wait till Roger T's bit of gear arrives.  Its en-route

>> someplace, on a donkey cart maybe. :)

>

>I'm waiting on mine too.  Hopefully Roger will use a reputable shipper...

> :-)

>

>John


Oooooh, that's a dig. :)

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