OpenSUSE :: Turn Off / Disable Bluetooth To Be Safe
Sep 15, 2010
My bluetooth seems to be activated in the system tray when I start the computer, can I disable this?.I do not want my computer to be visible to other computers if you know what I mean.Is it still safe even if the icon shows, Iam a little afraid someone might be able to hack the system this way? If itś still safe having it this way I dont really need to turn it of guess i�m a litlle paranoid because i never use bluetooth
there is something called show bluetooth icon when you click on Preferences in the menu is that a way to disable it?usually i used the quick keys on my keyboard but they don't seems to work in opensuse
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Mar 16, 2010
Since 11.2 bluetooth is defaulted to always turned on during boot. Is there any way to have bluetooth off as default during boot? I don't want it completely disabled as I sometimes require it but I'd prefer if the BT radio was in the off state as default.Really the bluetooth state should be persistent across boots - i.e. remember the last state.
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Dec 17, 2010
i've just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my dell studio xps 1640. but i have problem with my WLAN . it's a WLAN 1640 mini-card and i think there is no problem with driver. because it seems that it's installed correctly but i can't see any wireless networks (it says "Device is not ready"). is there any suggestions?by the way, when i turn my wireless to on (it's a touch key not a switch) only my bluetooth indicator is enabled not my wifi indicator.
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May 12, 2010
My system goes through slow periods where it just crawls and others where it's fine, but I'm wondering which service settings are OK to just shut off to give me a bit more oomph when I boot up.The others I'm pretty OK with like spam assassin, dictionary server and so on, but some of the others i wonder if they only serve to slow things down..Also..I live in a very dusty environment and I KNOW the fans and other parts get caked with dust and it wouldn't surprise me if the dust got so bad it just stops the fans completely so once in a while I use my air compressor to blow the crud out and I usually get covered myself, but how safe is using the compressor? It's not the type that typically fills up with condensed water droplets so that isn't a super critical issue..It's a small 1 hp deal, elect drive and so on.. Safe enough? It's all I have and/or can afford..
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Aug 16, 2011
I have an old hp that i installed ubuntu on and I was wondering how I can turn it into a real router. By real router I don't just mean broadcast the internet but use security software, configurations, and all the stuff normally found on a real router. What are the steps i need to take? I dont have 2 NIC's in it just one but I do have a wireless usb that I can just stick into it.
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Aug 8, 2009
In my notebook I use Fn+F2 to turn on bluetooth, but in slackware that doesn't work, to have bluetooth in my slackware I have to turn it on in Windows and reboot.
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Jan 4, 2010
How do I disable bluetooth on boot up. I know bluetooth can be turn off manually everytime I am on my com. But how do I permanently disable bluetooth on boot up. I don't want to disable it in bios because I am having dual boot.
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Feb 27, 2010
my laptop suspends and resumes ok, however i've noticed that when i suspend, my bluetooth dongle continues to flash, and if i check my phone it says i'm still connected.
surely this is a bad drain on my battery? how do i set it that my bluetooth will disable when i suspend the laptop then restart when i resume?
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Jan 7, 2011
im unable to turn bluetooth on at startup, i have to use the applet every time and click enable, any ideas on how to do this via terminal so i can do it on boot?
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Feb 24, 2011
I am a new user of ubuntu. I seem to have problem connecting to bluetooth. There is a message saying there are no bluetooth adapter. How do I turn on the adapter now that I've switched from windows 7 to ubuntu. My bluetooth was working fine in windows.
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Jun 16, 2011
I have a HCL K21 PDC notebook . In windows there is an driver called wconsole.exe or wireless console which help me turn on and off both blutooth and wlan device but in ubuntu these devices are not turned off. I also tried to to use the device buttons but it get activated automatically (but not in windows).
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Mar 26, 2009
I noticed the xsession-error file in my main user's home folder grow up to a big size, it's usually at 2-3MB sometimes up to 20MB. I use Fedora 10 64bit and KDE4.2. I got no problems at all and the xsession-error logfile is full of weird entrys, almost everything is reporting to it, mplayer, xine, opera, firefox, dolphin and many other software I use. I don't think the most of these entrys are real and critical system errors, especially all the mplayer stuff. However, I'm not worried about the file size since Fedora 10 seems to delete the file on every log in.
My problem is the disc access because all this never ending writings to hard disc kinda break things like the mount options noatime, nodiratime. I read something about you can redirect the logfile to /dev/null but that was for an ubunto distribution and I would like to get a how to for a save way to disable the xsession-error logfile, I got 8GB RAM so everything is in cache anyway after a long session, I really want to get rid of unnessesary hard disc access like that. If not recommend to disable it, can I direct it to an usb stick or ssd?
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Sep 24, 2010
I opened a specific port in my router and manually configured Limewire to use the same port for all traffic, but I notice when I disable and turn off Firestarter when on limewire, my searches go really fast and dowaloads zoom really fast also I am not running as root. Is this ok to temporarly stop the firewall when I am on Limewire and then turn it back on when finished?
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Aug 1, 2010
I have a bluetooth-enabled notebook and I used to eventually turn on/off the wireless switch, which disabled wi-fi and bluetooth capabilities.Recently I turned on the switch to find the bluetooth icon missing from the Notifications area at the panel. When I type bluetooth-properties at the terminal a windows pops up saying "Your computer does not have any Bluetooth adapters plugged in." No further hardware/software changes were made recently.
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May 1, 2010
I have an Acer Travelmate with an external Bluetoothswitch. Everytime I boot Linux Bluetooth is automatically activated. I'm running Kubuntu. How can I disable my Bluetooth so that it doesn't start on Startup?
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Nov 17, 2010
Everytime gnome starts up, the bluetooth applet has bluetooth enabled. I use it infrequently, so I always change it to disabled, but how do I make this the default setting for the bluetooth applet?
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Oct 1, 2010
I have problems with a high pitch noise on my lenovo thinkpad t61. Seems that more people have the problem: [URL]... When I stick in my usb mouse, problem is gone. I only have this problem on battery. when posting this rmmod uhci_hcd seems to solve it. How to make that permanent? How do disable bluetooth permanently?
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Mar 8, 2011
I have just bought a used Lenovo Thinkpad R61. Most of the things works in Squeeze like it did with Vista. But a bit annoying is that when i Vista with the "Fn-F5" could turn both wireless and bluetooth on and off. Now it is only wireless that works that way. On the top panel i can turn both wireless and bluetooth on and off, but it is still annnnoying. Is the a way to make all keys funktion on my Thinkpad?
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Apr 4, 2011
how to disable rSIM in the current bluetooth stack?Starting about a week ago, whenever my phone (Android Captivate) pairs with my ubuntu workstation the rSIM profile is enabled which effectively turns off my cell service since my Ubuntu machine does not have a GSM/3G radio built in.I'd like to disable rSIM altogether so that I can again re-pair my phone to my Linux system. All my searching turn up results for people trying FIX this service...
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May 6, 2015
I've got myself a a Filco Majestouch Convertible 2 which is a USB/bluetooth keyboard.
When I use it in USB mode it works perfectly. I would like to use it in bluetooth mode and I've found that it has problems. When I hit either Numlock or Capslock it stops responding.
I'm running Debian Testing and it was last updated a few days ago (02/05/2015). I've tested the keyboard using Ubuntu 14.04 live cd and it worked flawlessly even hitting Numlock & Capslock didn't stop it.
If I run btmon to monitor the keyboard it shows that after I've hit capslock or numlock it still sends signals to the computer. So there is information being sent to the computer but these characters do not make themselves to my application. I'm just testing with a terminal window.
Here is the output from btmon whilst the keyboard is connected and working:
Hitting the 'a' character
a> ACL Data RX: Handle 35 flags 0x02 dlen 14 [hci0] 16.769645
Channel: 65 len 10 [PSM 19 mode 0] {chan 1}
a1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..........
[Code] .....
Here are the versions of software I'm using;
Code: Select allbluetooth 5.23-2 all Bluetooth support
libbluetooth3:amd64 5.23-2+b1 amd64 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
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May 14, 2010
I've a custom startup script myscript.sh placed inside /etc/init.d/ directory with below lines to disable usb bluetooth device "hci0". This happens on Ubuntu Lucid.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Disabling hci0 bluetooth usb dongle"
/usr/sbin/hciconfig hci0 down &
Here is the /var/log/daemon.log
When I rebooted it worked fine disabling the bluetooth dongle. But, later on, it gets enabled! I've lost it!
Code:
May 15 00:20:02 linbox bluetoothd[1539]: probe failed with driver input-headset for device /org/bluez/1537/hci0/dev_00_1F_DE_FE_7C_34
May 15 00:20:02 linbox bluetoothd[1539]: Adapter /org/bluez/1537/hci0 has been enabled
May 15 01:07:39 linbox bluetoothd[810]: probe failed with driver input-headset for device /org/bluez/752/hci0/dev_00_1F_DE_FE_7C_34
May 15 01:07:39 linbox bluetoothd[810]: Adapter /org/bluez/752/hci0 has been enabled
May 15 01:07:49 linbox bluetoothd[810]: Adapter /org/bluez/752/hci0 has been disabled
May 15 07:46:10 linbox bluetoothd[1452]: probe failed with driver input-headset for device /org/bluez/1450/hci0/dev_00_1F_DE_FE_7C_34
May 15 07:46:10 linbox bluetoothd[1452]: Adapter /org/bluez/1450/hci0 has been enabled
I used update-rc.d myscript S 26 2 3 4 5 . to update symlinks.
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Aug 23, 2011
How do I disable bluetooth such that is does not start in "on" mode when I boot into fedora?
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Jul 4, 2010
I know that skype not in the repositories but is it ok to use?
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Mar 15, 2011
I'm using OS11.3 64bits with KDE 4.6.1 and its working fine.
Would anyone recommend me to do an upgrade to 11.4 or wait? If 11.4 is good, then would anyone recommend me to do a network upgrade, or clean installation?
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Mar 30, 2011
My old desktop had a power supply that was going bad, so instead of replacing it again I decided to buy a new PC Desktop. So I ordered from TigerDirect.com and got a grodd AMD computer without a operating system on it as I didn't want that Windows 7 scheisse on it. So I downloaded SuSe 11.4 64 bit, and installed it last night.
At this point I will tell you the new PC has an NVIDIA GeForce 61100 GPU for graphics with 128 mb memory. Also I use an HP W2007 wide display monitor running 1680 by 1050 resolution, that I got over 3 years ago when I was running SuSe 10.2.
So during installation last night of 11.4 when it did the first boot after install, is when I first saw the symptom which is an illegible white screen, with about 100 3 mm lines on it. So I shut down, rebooted and brought it up safe mode and all is fine. The error screen only appears if I boot GRUB with the Desktop or Xen option and only when the boot would switch to display my desktop.
I recall a similar illegible video monitor issue when I first got the display over 3 years ago, and fixed it by changing a SuSe video configuration option, but being I am getting old and I didn't write down what the configuration file was I am at a loss. All my previous SuSe installations never had a problem as I would always choose the Update rather than new install option thus that configuration file was brought across the many releases installations. This video configuration parameter had the monitor resolution sizes in it.
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May 3, 2011
What is the correct/safe way to move from upstart to systemd? I originally installed upstart in 11.3 and have now upgraded to 11.4. Having successfully upgraded to 11.4 I tried to use yast2 to install systemd and systemd-sysvinit onto my running system. Yast correctly identified that upstart should be deinstalled as a prerequisite for installing systemd-sysvinit.
After the install of systemd the system wouldn't shut down, and on a reset the system reported many systemctl/start service timeouts on things such as mounts and ttys. Eventually the system started an X-windows KDM login, but there were no console ttys and mounts were missing. I used X/kdm to login to root - phew! - I restored / from an rsync backup I'd made prior to the changes, so I'm back in business with upstart. I'd like to tidy up and move to systemd - I going to have a nose around myself, perhaps I will try switching back to sysv init and then going to systemd - but I have to wait for the machine to be idle before I experiment, any info in the mean time would be great.
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Jun 25, 2010
i have a bluetooth modem (BlueSMiRF) that is connected to Arduino Duemilanove. I am trying to see serial communication messages from the bluetooth modem.
I have Blueman Device Manager that enabled SPP (Serial Port) and it says :
Code:
Serial port connected to /dev/rfcomm0
How do I see the serial communication on this?
I tried on console
Code:
$rfcomm listen 0
but it's stuck at
Code:
Waiting for connection on Channel 1
Is there any other way to listen (and also send) to serial comm msgs on bluetooth?
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Sep 12, 2010
I'm using fedora 13 x86_64 on amd machine. I use usb bluetooth dongle. The bluetooth service doesn't start at all. When I click on bluetooth icon-preferences-turn bluetooth on, after some time it says, bluetooth is disabled. What should I do to enable bluetooth?
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Apr 24, 2010
When i connect to my laptop a bluetooth usb stick, the bluetooth could not be turned on.
the bluetooth dameon is on, and when i press the turn on button, nothing happens.
in windows the stick works fine.
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Nov 2, 2010
The bluetooth manager does not detect a bluetooth dongle .trying to use ndiswrapper to fix.I installed device manager and the results are shown below.i downloaded the windows driver suite. It has 4 .exe self extracting driver archives and a setupconfig.ini. The .ini file is below.I was able to extract one of the 32bit archives on a windows machine and it had about 8 .inf files that are titled weird and would not install properly using ndiswrapper probably because im using the 64-bit architecture. there are 2 64bit .exe's in the driver download, but how can i extract them in ubuntu and do i really need to install all 8 .inf files. also do i actually need to make a .inf file? if so how?
Asus - BT211 mini bluetooth dongle
Code: http:[url].... - windows driver under download section.
Device manager
Code:
Model: Unknown model (id =0x3000)
Vendor: atheros Communications, inc[code]....
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