Solved Bluetooth card: how to find?

[lost_in_c]

I have been trying to set up my native bluetooth discovery capabilities. I have found a number of guides (probably all paraphrasing the same original one) discussing setting up a bluetooth dongle, but that is not what I am looking for.

What I am looking for is the equivalent of setting up a wlan0 with ifconfig. How do I find the bluetooth device/driver/card that is already in my system?

I have done much searching of ng_ubt, hccontrol and bluetooth man pages, to no avail. When I try executing any command with hccontrol, I get "Could not find HCI nodes."

There is the /etc/bluetooth directory, but it seems to be there for setting up external devices to connect to, as far as I understand, not from.

Has anybody had better luck? Any ideas?

 

[covacat]

only usb bluetooth hardware is supported
if your hw is connected via uart or sdio it wont work
not all usb work, some intel and broadcom versions need loadable firmware to work

 

[lost_in_c]

Well that explains it. It's not so terrible to have to get some kind of dongle.

Thanks much!

(my usb bluetooth things, mouse and keyboard, worked perfectly out of the box)