See the links in the refeences below for more information.Īnd there isn't an active Bluetooth connection, it will show Down/Down. The PSCAN means Page Scan and ISCAN means Inquiry scan. HCI stands for Host Controller Interface and is the protocol that allows communiction between the host and the controller (Chipset). Notice that the switch reports HCI Version 4.0. Looks like the dongle from the Air-Console will work and I can use the $4 dongles off ebay. My laptop has Bluetooth built in and it mounts as hci0 so the dongle mounted as hci1. TX bytes:4877 acl:0 sco:0 commands:56 errors:0 RX bytes:730 acl:0 sco:0 events:56 errors:0 I ran it to see if the dongle was working on Ubuntu and it was:īD Address: 02:BF:28:F8:B1:ED ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8

Linux has great terminal tools for working with Bluetooth devices. If it works on the C9500 that would be great. That is a very common chipset and USB dongles with that chipset are available on ebay for around $4. I popped it into my Ubuntu laptop and ran 'lsusb' to see what chipset it had:īus 001 Device 012: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

I had my Air-Console laying on the table and remembered that it has a USB Bluetooth dongle.

I have an Air-console and it works great but it has to be charged, have a serial to USB cable and is larger than a USB Dongle. The connected dongle acts as a Bluetooth host and serves as a management port connection on the device.īeing able to log on wirelessly using a tiny USB dongle seemed worth some time to figure out. With release 16.12.1 Cisco added support for Bluetooth dongles for management.

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