[BRLTTY] How to find bluetooth address

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Jan 5 19:34:07 EST 2010


[quoted lines by Tom Masterson on 2010/01/05 at 15:56 -0800]

>I have a Dell netbook and a varioconnect 40 from Baum.  My braille
>display works fine as a usb device but I am not sure how to set it up
>as a bluetooth.  It has a bluetooth name but I can't figure out it's
>address or even if bluetooth is working on the netbook.  Can anyone
>help please?

Is it running Linux or Windows. If Linux, then (without the quotew) "hciconfig" 
will tell you if Bluetooth is on and "hcitool scan" will search for Bluetooth 
devices.

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