Resolve the Bluetooth problem on Fedora 15/16

Problem

After you setup your phone with your F15/F16 through bluetooth, and try to browse or send files, you fail and get message like "connection refused" or "permission denied".

Solution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753617

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My steps
#sudo yum install gnome-user-share bluez-hcidump obexfs

#sudo hciconfig hci0 sspmode 0

Remove the bluetooth devices and then add them back.

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Quotation from above web page.

Comment 16
Japplo
2012-02-12 18:06:16 EST

Hi guys, I've found a workaround using obexfs :-)
First, mount the bluetooth device like that:

yum install obexfs
mkdir /tmp/test
obexfs -b 12:34:56:78:90:12 /tmp/test

After this, I can send and receive files without problems! yes yes yes

Comment 17
Gökhan Sever
2012-02-13 12:58:04 EST

Hi Japplo,

I can get my N900 mount following your method. I can see files, but copying
doesn't move even a bit of data, and end up crashing file manager.

Comment 18
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2012-02-15 08:29:51 EST

This is a regression in Linux Kernel, for more information check this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/15447/focus=20013

Any 2.1 device (with Secure Simple Pairing enabled) will fail to connect if sdp
is also connected, apparently obexfs doesn't do sdp thats why it works, the
workaround is to disable spp by doing: sudo hcidump hci0 sspmode 0

Comment 19
Saurav Sengupta
2012-02-15 13:19:37 EST

The command is hciconfig instead of hcidump. Does anyone know how to make the
workaround persist across Bluetooth on/off and system reboots?