Install some package:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez-utils blueman libbluetooth-dev
Insert the dongle, and run command lsusb. My result:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:21e8 Broadcom Corp.
Broadcom Corp. is what I plug in.
Run command/etc/init.d/bluetooth status. See below result
to check whether your device is running.
[....] bluetooth is running.
Prepare another bluetooth device, and run hcitool scan.
For me, I use Samsung GT-S7270, and make it discoverable.
Scanning ...
18:26:66:AD:24:A6 CHEN Yu Ting (GT-S7270
18:26:66:AD:24:A6 is the MAC address of this device.
We can ping this device with its MAC address via command
l2ping. For me, I run :
sudo l2ping -c 2 18:26:66:AD:24:A6. And result:
Ping: 18:26:66:AD:24:A6 from 00:02:72:CC:BB:C1 (data size 44) ...
0 bytes from 18:26:66:AD:24:A6 id 0 time 40.35ms
0 bytes from 18:26:66:AD:24:A6 id 1 time 22.37ms
2 sent, 2 received, 0% loss
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