[BRLTTY] Can this be done?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Tom Masterson on 2011/08/15 at 06:50 -0700]

>Running sdptool browas on that address returns:
>
>Browsing 00:A0:96:2F:A4:/2D ...
>
>And that is it.

Okay. That means that defaults can be assumed.

Have you done anything on your system which might've claimed that address for 
something else? For example, might it perhaps be already bound to a virtual 
serial device? You can check that by looking in /dev for rfcomm* devices. Also, 
perhaps your system logs contain a hint or two.

If you don't find anything, then here's another test you could do. You can try 
to manual bind your device to a serial port, say rfcomm0, with the following 
command:

   rfcomm bind rfcomm0 <address>

You can then remove the binding with the following command:

   rfcomm release rfcomm0

If you can bind the device, then you can try to use it by invoking brltty as 
follows:

   brltty -dserial:rfcomm0

If this works then it'll at least give you a way to use your device. It'll 
still leave us with a mystery, though - why you can't access your device 
directly. I'd still like to pursue that one.

There's another thing I'd like you to check. The error you're getting really 
does imply that something else is already connected to the device. Could you 
check if, just maybe, you already have anotehr brltty running which is? It's 
also conceivably possible that the device is already in use by another 
computer, mobile phone, or some such thing.

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