This is what I recieve when pinging a bluetooth device: # l2ping 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 Ping: 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 from 00:02:72:C9:7C:39 (data size 44) ... 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 0 time 114.76ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 1 time 12.67ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 2 time 13.82ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 3 time 15.00ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 4 time 14.03ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 5 time 13.17ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 6 time 13.33ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 7 time 13.36ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 8 time 13.73ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 9 time 13.91ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 10 time 14.07ms 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 11 time 13.22ms 12 sent, 12 received, 0% loss I think this is just a bug in the output, all previous steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml succeeded. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.l2ping somedevice 2. 3. Actual Results: Ping: 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 from 00:02:72:C9:7C:39 (data size 44) ... 0 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 0 time 114.76ms 12 sent, 12 received, 0% loss Expected Results: Ping: 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 from 00:02:72:C9:7C:39 (data size 44) ... 44 bytes from 00:0F:DE:EF:7B:88 id 0 time 114.76ms 12 sent, 12 received, 0% loss # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -msse2 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -msse2 -mmmx"DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" LINGUAS="nl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi adns alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif fam fdftk ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb foomaticdv fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnutils gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png ppds python quicktime readline real samba sdl snmp spell sse ssl svg tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xpm xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_nl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
what version of bluez-utils were you using?
$ emerge -pvt bluez-utils These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-wireless/bluez-utils-2.19 +alsa +cups -dbus +gtk +pcmcia 484 kB
fixed in later versions
