[BRLTTY] Unsolicited and doubtless erroneous patch to README.Bluetooth

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Oct 4 14:01:58 EDT 2011


On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> It seems the file README.Bluetooth requires more *nix knowledge than
> I, at least, possess. For example, the topic of pairing the device as
> being separate from finding addresses only came up today. Accordingly,
> the enclosed patch isn't necessarily for your benefit though you can
> use as much of it as you choose; it's for mine, exposing my
> misconceptions and perhaps sparing others from the same mistakes. In
> particular, the first field in pincodes seems to be the device's
> address which we don't yet know.

That file refers to the pincodes file which I think is not used by the 
bluetooth infrastructure any longer.  Hence the need 
to use bluez-simple-agent now (or the equivalent in graphical mode with 
sighted assistance).


Nicolas


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