Error “rfcomm connection refused” attempting to establish a GPRS modem connection over a Bluetooth phone
This had been working without any problems for months, but this afternoon got an error while trying to connect to the Internet using my Nokia E62 as a Bluetooth modem on a Dell Inspiron E1505 running Ubuntu 8.10. Attempting to establish a dial up connection returned a rude error.
# wvdial E62
rfcomm connection refused
The solution was to remove the file containing the Link Keys used for the Bluetooth challenge-response scheme and letting the system recreate it after a successful bind. On my system this file was named "linkkeys" and lived in /var/lib/bluetooth/[device MAC address]
find /var/lib/bluetooth/ -name linkkeys | xargs rm
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