Macbook Pro + Vmware + Bluetooth

[shilton]

Hello, i'm just beginning with backtrack 4 and faced such problem:

My Mac has built in bluetooth so i'm trying to use it in bt4, but when I type "hciconfig" it shows nothing. As I understand, it is "usb bluetooth" so it can be used it bt4 via Vmware. Correct me if I wrong. I'm kinda stuck

Any advice or help appreciated! Thanks!

[Liuser]

You usually need to install drivers on your VM so that the onboard bluetooth will then be detected and useable in your guest machine.

[shilton]

Ok. got it! Thank you! Will be searching for such Apple Bluetooth driver for Bt 4. By the way, if anybody knows a good place to download it, please tell me.

[Barry]

Ok. got it! Thank you! Will be searching for such Apple Bluetooth driver for Bt 4. By the way, if anybody knows a good place to download it, please tell me.

Look for a driver that works with Ubuntu.

[here2learn]

Hi!

I just managed to get Blutooth working under VMWare + Backtrack R2.

After a little search I hit this website: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7202/...acbook-pro-6-2

That got me to this repository: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa

From which I interpreted that I should add to my /etc/apt/sources.list this line:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ppa/ubuntu maverick main

from where I did: apt-get update
and then did: apt-get install btusb-dkms

and this got Bluetooth working on BackTrack R2 under VMWare on a MacBook Pro 6,2

Hope this helps, it took me a couple of hours to find these steps.

(This thread is many months old, but as they say, better late than never ;-)