[BRLTTY] Mantis q40 with linux in bluetooth

Roberto Burceni roberto at robertoburceni.it
Wed Oct 21 20:34:27 UTC 2026


Hello,

I have a problem with mantis q40 and debian trixie.

I cannot connect braille display with brltty. I tried several 
configurations but I don't know ho to solve this.

The situation is this:

I have a Debian Trixie fresh install on an hp notebook elite book with 
intel chip.

If I try to connect mantis with bluetooth directly with commandline 
parameters or in brltty config file it does not connect.

Then I paired with bluetoothctl as follows:

power on

agent on

default-agent

scan on


When I read the mantis mac address I continue with bluetooth commands

scan off

pair <mac address>

trust <mac address>

connect <mac address>

At this point the keyboard of manis works correctly.

When I launch brltty also with debug the two errors are:

rfcomm error 111 connection refused

error 38 function not supported.


I reset more times the bluetooth of mantis and removed from bluetooth 
stack on pc, but nothing change.

Linux is installed with dual boot with windows no virtual machine it 
manages directly hardware.

Have you some idea about what can I do to solve this problem?

Thank you in advance

-- 
Roberto Burceni
Linux System Admin & PHP developer
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E-mail: roberto at robertoburceni.it
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