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Bluetooth bug : Failed to pair

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freenestor
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Bluetooth bug : Failed to pair

#1 Post by freenestor »

Hello,

Context :
I have a Thinkpad X201 with Debian 8 LXDE. Cf. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd010141
I installed blueman and blueman-applet for systray
I have a Sony wireless keyboard (model N° CECH-ZKB1FR). Cf. (this one is for Great Britain) : http://uk.playstation.com/media/DfB0OZj ... NL_vf1.pdf

Prolem :
When I add the keyboard via blueman-applet, I can detect it, but when I try to connect, I have this message : "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."

Investigation :
I had a look at https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser
I use bluetoothctl (bluetooth-agent does not work, which i do not know why).

me@think:~$ bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller E0:2A:82:F2:9F:BD think [default]
[NEW] Device 74:2F:68:AB:D1:CA Wireless Keyboard
[bluetooth]# pair 74:2F:68:AB:D1:CA
Attempting to pair with 74:2F:68:AB:D1:CA
[CHG] Device 74:2F:68:AB:D1:CA Connected: yes (I typed the code on wireless keyboard just after "Connected: yes" - EDIT : I am sure it is the good one)
Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AuthenticationFailed
[CHG] Device 74:2F:68:AB:D1:CA Connected: no



Thanks for your help,

Freenestor

freenestor
Posts: 2
Joined: 2015-10-14 17:15

Re: Bluetooth bug : Failed to pair

#2 Post by freenestor »

More info :
Bluetooth adapter shows in dmesg but not in lspci or lsusb

me@think:~$ lspci | grep -i blue
me@think:~$ lsusb | grep -i blue
me@think:~$ dmesg |grep -i Bluetooth
[ 3.991593] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is blocked
[ 7.456220] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19
[ 7.456246] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 7.456257] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 7.456259] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 7.456270] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 7.462034] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 7.462037] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 7.462048] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 7.700493] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 7.700508] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 7.700514] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 49.936369] usb 1-1.4: Product: Broadcom Bluetooth Device

Several people have the same problem on this thread : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1135556
One says " Problem is coming with kernel 3.2.0-24-generic-pae but not with kernel 3.2.0-23-generic-pae ". My own kernel is 3.16.0-4-amd64. Do I necessarily have to upgrade or is the solution elsewhere ? e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 4#p1469064 says the problem is in the btusb module.I want to stay on Debian stable and I really do not want to break my install...

Thanks for your help,

Freenestor

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