Bluetooth (bluez4) and bluetooth serial port

[Paul Fertser]

Michael Zanetti <michael_zanetti at gmx.net> writes:
> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 11:51:35 RANJAN wrote:
>> > IMHO the wiki explains it pretty good:
>> >
>> > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_Bluetooth#Scanning_for_bluet
>> >ooth_devices
>> >
>> > Also the section about networking clearly describes the situation with
>> > PAND +
>> > Bluez4...
>> 
>> Got the device bonded to the laptop running Xp.However when I try to serial
>> port connect it says device Om-gta02 does not support Bluetooth serial
>> port.Any ideas how to get the serial port over bluetooth working?
>> 
>
> AFAIK SPP (Serial Port Profile) is handled by rfcomm in BlueZ. Check out 
> /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf. It's long time ago since I last used this so I 
> cannot remember any exact steps... Again... The information on the wiki page 
> should help you getting started. Try using google if you don't understand 
> everything in the wiki page...

In fact to have a FR work as SPP server, he can try to look at using
test-service script along with service-spp.xml from bluez test/
directory in the sources.

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