Bluetooth tools for Windows?

[xanderd]

OK, I know there are several tools for Linux, but can anyone provide links to Windows based Bluetooth hacking tools?

Im having trouble seting up my Linux disto to use my USB BT dongle.

cheers

[drdank]

Im having trouble seting up my Linux disto to use my USB BT dongle.

cheers

What does DMESG say when you insert it?

[xanderd]

What does DMESG say when you insert it?

sorry, Im really new to linux.

I dont know what DMESG is! nothing happens when i insert the USB dongle. Im using Mandrake 10.1.

menuconfig doesnt work. I dont know what to do!

cheers

[drdank]

sorry, Im really new to linux.

I dont know what DMESG is! nothing happens when i insert the USB dongle. Im using Mandrake 10.1.

menuconfig doesnt work. I dont know what to do!

cheers

dmesg is done at the terminal. It basically displays the log for your session. You can see boot messages, USB hotswap messages, etc in there. With the dongle out run dmesg. Plug it in, wait a few seconds, and run dmesg again. See what it says.

[xanderd]

oh, thanks!! this is what it says: (looks like its recognised it, but being new to linux its hard to tell!). SO where do i go from here, as in how would i go about, say, connecting to my mobie phone to transfer pictures?

"
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0:wakeup
use 1-1: new full speed USB device sing address2
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol familly 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.7
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
"

thanks

[drdank]

oh, thanks!! this is what it says: (looks like its recognised it, but being new to linux its hard to tell!). SO where do i go from here, as in how would i go about, say, connecting to my mobie phone to transfer pictures?

"
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0:wakeup
use 1-1: new full speed USB device sing address2
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol familly 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.7
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
"

thanks

Good, looks like you're halfway home. Unfortunately I can't be of much help past this point. Google is your best bet for your particular phone.

http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/ is also a good resource. Let me know how it turns out.

[xanderd]

Good, looks like you're halfway home. Unfortunately I can't be of much help past this point. Google is your best bet for your particular phone.

http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/ is also a good resource. Let me know how it turns out.

OK, Ive now installed bluez-libs and bluez-utils.

I type 'hciconfig' and it says:

"
ci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
DOWN
RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0

"
i read that it should say "UP RUNNING".

I type 'hcitool scan' to scan for devices and it says:

"
Device is not available: Success
"

I read somewhere to run 'menuconfig', but it says "command not found".

any ideas?

[TheCotMan]

I read somewhere to run 'menuconfig', but it says "command not found".

any ideas?

Obligatory answer:
"menuconfig" is often associated with kernel builds or makefles as a Makefile label for curses/ncurses-based option selection to project src trees.

Though some people on these forums provide some direction, nudges, pointers for OS problems, that is not the primary purpose of these forums. If you get no more replies on this, it is not because people can't help you, but instead because they choose not to.

From what I see, a big part of the hacker drive involves working on your own to solve problems. Asking for help is almost like admitting defeat.

Consider joining a Linux User Group mailing list. Many Linux user Groups (LUG) have installfests where technically skilled user help peers to install systems. (Some will even help you with things like this in person.)

HTH

[xanderd]

Obligatory answer:
"menuconfig" is often associated with kernel builds or makefles as a Makefile label for curses/ncurses-based option selection to project src trees.

Though some people on these forums provide some direction, nudges, pointers for OS problems, that is not the primary purpose of these forums. If you get no more replies on this, it is not because people can't help you, but instead because they choose not to.

From what I see, a big part of the hacker drive involves working on your own to solve problems. Asking for help is almost like admitting defeat.

Consider joining a Linux User Group mailing list. Many Linux user Groups (LUG) have installfests where technically skilled user help peers to install systems. (Some will even help you with things like this in person.)

HTH

my research is trying to increase awareness of bluetooth security issues for the greater good. The first step is trying out the hacking tools for myself. Its not my fault if Ive never used Linux before...this 'hacker' culture/mindset is too bigheaded for me.

you may feel inadequate about asking for help, but I see it as a way of speeding things up...sure i could teach myself in a few weeks, but if someone knows the answer off the top of their heads...

[TheCotMan]

this 'hacker' culture/mindset is too bigheaded for me.

This has nothing to do with head size; it has to do with knowledge and being able to be so intimate with something that it is forced to do your bidding.

you may feel inadequate about asking for help, but I see it as a way of speeding things up...sure i could teach myself in a few weeks, but if someone knows the answer off the top of their heads...

Good luck.

[EvilMoFo]

From what I see, a big part of the hacker drive involves working on your own to solve problems. Asking for help is almost like admitting defeat.

i would not say that... asking a direct question will admit defeat, asking for help in finding the steps is not
the question in this case tho, is more former than the latter...

my advise to the linux n00b is locate a handbook (bsd does it, dunno bout the linux stuff tho) and read thru some of it
also, check your path... a friend of mine (for some messed up reason) was playing with redhat and whenever i touched his machine i was screaming murder, ifconfig was not found yet was in its proper dir

[TheCotMan]

i would not say that... asking a direct question will admit defeat, asking for help in finding the steps is not
the question in this case tho, is more former than the latter...

Good point; there are exceptions.

check your path... a friend of mine (for some messed up reason) was playing with redhat and whenever i touched his machine i was screaming murder, ifconfig was not found yet was in its proper dir

Such problems are often a result of such tools being located in "system config binary directories" such as "/sbin" , "/usr/sbin" , or "/usr/local/sbin" which are not paths which are added to normal user PATH env vars. However, these are usually part of root's PATH. When users choose to "su" to root, they may inheirit their own exported PATH as a normal user. To ask "su" to load root's shell configurations and evironmental settings, adding a "-" to make it "su -" often provides the desired results.

As an alternative, shell config files can be edited to append or prepend new path per user or system-wide.

[xanderd]

Though some people on these forums provide some direction, nudges, pointers for OS problems, that is not the primary purpose of these forums.
HTH

neither is searching for p0rn

Anyone know where i can get those new pics of Next Door Nikki topless. Everyone is posting really small pics. I want the BIG ones ?

Did you even try to enter your search in google?
Search google for:
Next Door Nikki topless pictures
111,000 hits found
HTH

whats the point of a forum if the users post saying i know the answer to your question...but Im not going to tell you.

this should be a place for discussion.

[TheCotMan]

neither is searching for p0rn

I have been known to provide google links to answer questions to show how questions could be answered with google. In that case, I did not even provide the link. An answer with the number of hits was sufficient at making my point. The user should have asked google and not the forums.

whats the point of a forum if the users post saying i know the answer to your question...but Im not going to tell you.

Diagnosis, trouble-shooting and installing new hardware is often an *interactive* process which does not lend itself well to e-mail, or forums. I have helped people on LUG lists with installing new hardware, and some have required well over 30 replies to questions and answers. That is a lot of work.

this should be a place for discussion.

It is. You are choosing to spend your time discussing this issue instead of solving it.

[AlxRogan]

This is going nowhere. You've gotten great advice and made some progress, but I don't think anything else useful is going to come out of this thread.