Re: Linux bluetooth usb

On 1/28/07, Unit3 <unit3@demoni.ca> wrote:
> Steven Kurylo wrote:
> > Does anyone have a suggestion? I might default to a middle of the
> > road, price wise, from dlink... Is there some hardware which won't
> > support certain profiles?
> I've always just bought the cheapest possible adapter, and they all seem
> to work perfectly fine with Ubuntu. Or, rather, well enough as compared
> to any other. The Linux bluetooth stack is not very mature yet, so
> there's often some hassle getting the devices bonded to the computer,
> but that doesn't seem to vary from adaptor to adaptor.

Well the cheapest one worked out of the box. Bonding wasn't working
until I installed the kde bluetooth stuff. Then it was a breezy. I
can pull/delete images from my phone with kde, and gnokii grabs the
contacts ok.

> I think that they're all pretty much standard, and that the Alsa driver
> for headsets pretty much works with every one. I haven't tried a super
> wide range, but the cheap couple I've bought off eBay have both worked
> fine, so I assume it's a generic standard.

Are you using the bluez-btsco package?

There doesn't seem to be a debian one, so I'm wrestling with
installing the ubuntu one right now.

Thanks.
Received on Wed Feb 7 23:06:53 2007