[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#463711: Bug#463711: cannot pair on the command line

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:25:47AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > whenever there is a pairing request a suitable passkey-agent (such as
> > bluez-gnome or kdebluetooth) will pop up a dialog asking the passkey. 
> > 
> 
> As written before: "Please note that neither gnome-bluez nor
> kdebluetooth work for me." The bug report is about using bluez
> on the command line. Currently it says "success", but obviously
> it failed, not giving any hint about what went wrong. That's the
> bug.

Have a look at /var/log/daemon.log after the connection, you should see pin code
requests as:

Feb 16 18:38:35 clamp hcid[24523]: pin_code_request (sba=XXXXXXXXXXX, dba=XXXXXXXXXX)

Currently there is no console passkey agent (besides the example in
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/examples/ )

HTH,
filippo
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