[gnome-bluetooth] Multiple Blietooth dongles

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue Dec 22 10:41:46 CET 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 19:50 +0100, Patrick Libert wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a dinovo bluetooth keyboard and mouse. And I have a bluetooth
> stereo headset.
> These three devices don't wrok together on one bluetooth dongle. I
> think it's a problem with the bandwith.

They should all work fine together on the same dongle.

> All the devices including the bluetooth dongle are 2.0.

Are the Bluetooth dongles 2.0? You can check with "hciconfig hciX
version".

> I always solved this problem by using two bluetooth dongles.
> But now when I installed a new version of ubuntu, I see that the
> gnome-bluetooth applet has changed (2.28.1),
> it doesn't show two bluetooth dongles, it only shows one, but they are
> both detected when I type hcitool dev: it shows two bluetooth dongles.
> Doesn't gnome-bluetooth support two bluetooth dongles anymore?

It's not "any more". It just doesn't support 2 Bluetooth dongles.

> I can solve the problem by using blueman but that hasn't support for
> dinovo keyboard.

The keyboard should still work with Blueman.

Check whether your dongles are Bluetooth 2.x ones, and if not, please
try with one. If the problems persist, get the output of "hcidump -X -V"
when reproducing the problems, and send a message to the linux-bluetooth
mailing-list.

Cheers



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