Can not pair with a Bluetooth device that needs a fixed PIN

[EPx]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

This is a long-standing bug, since Karmic or so, and still present in Natty.

When pairing with a new device that needs a specific PIN (in my case, it is a Nonin 9650 oximeter), I choose PIN Options, choose Custom PIN and type the number of the needed PIN. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it insists on choosing a random PIN, which won't work with Nonin because it does not have a keyboard at all.

Sometimes the bluetooth-applet does the right thing 66% of the time, but sometimes it simplly won't go with fixed PIN, even trying several times, so I am forced to use simple-agent script from BlueZ source. There is some "statistical" or "random" component in this behavior.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about it at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[EPx (elvis-pfutzenreuter)]

Looks solved in Oniric. Just upgraded one machine and tested on it.

[James Bass (deviant)]

It does not seem to be fixed, at least on my two x86_64 Oneiric installs. I can choose PIN Options Fixed Pin '0000', OR enter a custom pin, and it ONLY works ***IF*** you chose the "PIN options" FIRST, THEN select the device, otherwise, if the device is selected first, it will never work, at least on my two installs of Oneiric.

This can be reproduced every time on my systems.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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