[BRLTTY] How to find bluetooth address

[Tom Masterson]

Thanks Dave that helped.  Those commands do exist under Ubuntu.

Tom


On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Labrador wrote:

> Hi Dave and all,
>
> the commands you gave about hci* does not exist under Debian,
> can someone tell whichone are supposed existing under Debian ?
>
> Grtnx,
> Labrador
>
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> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:34:07PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> [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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