

In a new terminal, confirm that the joystick is sending data to your computer. If you do not see the above message and you are running Karmic or Lucid versions of Ubuntu you may need to follow these instructions. Press the PS button in the middle of the joystick and the connection will be activated.
#Ps3 mac address ps3#
Disconnect your PS3 joystick from USB and press the pairing button.
#Ps3 mac address Bluetooth#
Now, start the program to create the connection between the bluetooth dongle and the joystick: Unplug the joystick from the computer and make sure that the USB bluetooth dongle is plugged in. Replace the joystick's MAC address using the following command:

Now unplug the bluetooth dongle and plug the PS3 joystick into the computer using a USB cable. (In the above example, the MAC address is: 00:22:B0:D0:5A:09) TX bytes:247 acl:10 sco:0 commands:16 errors:0 Plug the USB bluetooth dongle into the computer and read the MAC address from the dongle:īD Address: 00:22:B0:D0:5A:09 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 Please enable Bluetooth or specify an address manually. Unable to retrieve local bd_addr from `hcitool dev`. Press Ctrl-D now so that you do not continue to run as root. Load the bluetooth dongle's MAC address into the PS3 joystick using: Then, plug the PS3 bluetooth joystick into the computer using a USB cable. Plug the USB bluetooth dongle into your computer. This will usually be the case when you are working on the PR2.įor Computers with More than One USB Port If this joystick has already been paired to this dongle you can skip this section and go directly to "Connecting to the Joystick Via Bluetooth". Start by installing the dependencies and compiling the driver: Connecting to the Joystick Via Bluetooth.For Computers with More than One USB Port.
