[clug] USB Bluetooth device

[Jason]

Try (as root) cat /proc/tty/driver/usbserial which should give you a vendor id to search for I think.

(love my level of confidence?)

Jason


On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:54:09 +1100, Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:

> I intended to use the Perl module Device::Gsm to operate a USB bluetooth dongle, but the first thing it wanted to know was where the bluetooth device was (ie /dev/ttyS0 etc)
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> Looking at dmesg for all Bluetooth entries I have
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>
> [   67.122507] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
> [   67.122588] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
> [   67.122592] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> [   67.183348] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
> [   99.954418] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
> [   99.954423] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> [  100.130472] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
> [  100.130489] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
> [  100.130491] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
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>
> None of the above don't seem to give any clues
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> Also looked at these
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> cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
> hciconfig -a
> cat /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf and lastly
> cat /etc/init.d/bluetooth
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> but I can't glean a device from any of it.
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> So I was just wondering how I go about determining what device is assigned to the bluetooth dongle.
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> There is a character device radio0 but I suspect that belongs to the radio card
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> All this on Ubuntu-7.04
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> Could anyone advise how I find what device the dongle is attached to?
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> TIA
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>
> Owen
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