installing bluetooth manager on my debian laptop

i just wanted to install some kind of bluetooth connection manager in my laptop, coz i had some files to be transfered from my mobile to laptop. my laptop is a compaq presario m2000 and i'm using debian(my favourite OS) on it.

first i installed bluez-utils package.

apt-get install bluez-utils

then i conected the bluetooth dongle and ran hciconfig .

hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:11:67:1D:ED:DC ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:4816991 acl:18400 sco:0 events:7524 errors:0
TX bytes:657600 acl:7361 sco:0 commands:71 errors:0


so with the previous result i knew that the dongle is recongnized and then i wanted to scan for new devices. then i turned on blutooth in my mobile phone(sony ericcson k750i).

then i executed hcitool scan and it gave me following result.

praveen-laptop:/home/praveen/Desktop/Downloads# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:18:13:4F:4A:61 Praveen K750i
00:03:7A:E0:9B:EE CHANDIKA
00:17:4B:D4:29:56 Chandika Nokia 6630


now it seems that i can connect into the phone. so i wanted to know
some more information about my mobile so i ran hcitool information 00:18:13:4F:4A:61 and gave me the following result.

Requesting information ...
BD Address: 00:18:13:4F:4A:61
Device Name: Praveen K750i
LMP Version: 1.2 (0x2) LMP Subversion: 0x41c
Manufacturer: Philips Semiconductors (37)
Features: 0xff 0xed 0x8d 0xf8 0x1a 0x08 0x00 0x00
<3-slot> <5-slot> ....


then i installed gnome-bluetooth debian package. so i selected tuxfamily.org to download it, so i had to update the sources.list which resides at /etc/apt/sources.list .

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/osrdebian unstable gnome-bluetooth
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/osrdebian unstable gnome-bluetooth


i added the following two lines. then i tried to update apt but it seems that you need a public key to access the newly added sources.

so then i ran

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/osrdebian/61B8DB62.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

to add the key to the apt trusted key list.

hard work is over it seems. then i ran apt-get install gnome-bluetooth in order to install gnome-bluetooth

when the install completed there was new button appearing under

applications ->accessories -> bluetooth file sharing.

when i clicked on it. the service got started and then i tried to send an image file to the laptop from my mobile and it worked.

wooow, at last.

but to send files from my laptop to mobile i still have to use the command gnome-obex-send which opens a new window asking to which device i want to send the file.

thats well done.

i'm catching up and living with linux.

setting up ur notebook's wireless network connection

Today i was configuring a new testserver for PHP5 at my office, suddenly i noticed that even though i have a wifi enabled laptop that it is not capable to login to the internet using that. i use two operating systems in my laptop "Windows XP" and "Debian". most of the time i login to the debian account. but whenever im in the office i plug the network cable to my laptop.

but due to what happened today i had to log in to the windows account, and from there i configured the wireless network. wow surprisingly it connected to our office wireless network within minutes. so then i knew that there might be something which stopped me configuring it in my Linux account.

so once again i reboot the notebook and logged in to the debian account. and there i tried to connect to office wireless network. but i found that it is not working. and then when i dmesg i found an error code looks similar to "bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed."

and for this error i've installed the bcm43xx-fwcutter which ws a contrib package. then i thought the problem is resolved. and then i found the new network connection eth0 when i ifconfig.

bt nw when i execute "ifup eth0" it keeps saying "DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13" and so on. and after six attempts it says "No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping."

i've used a static IP to replace DHCP even though it didnt worked.

i've installed kismet-server , airsnort , linux-wlan-ng. and then i tried to airsnort scan. bt it didnt worked too.

im still finding an answer for this. i'll update this topic as soon as i get the answer.