Bluetooth woes, losing hair

[Richard Cheesman]

Richard Cheesman wrote:
> Right.
>
> After a couple of weeks of being patient, reading many posts about 'how 
> bluetooth in Ubuntu is easier than Vista', I give up.
>
> I have a bluetooth dongle for my Ubuntu box (Gutsy), and would like to 
> connect my Palm T|X and Motorola V3i to it.  Possibly to sync data, or 
> just for filesharing.  I constantly get a Could not find Obex//  etc error.
>
> I've tried pretty much everything, mostly from the Ubuntu forums, to no 
> avail....
>
> Any help out there?
>
>
>   
And... doing 'hcitool dev' on the CLI produces a mac address completely 
different to that of the Palm (my primary connection problem)

R