Steven Demetrius wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> >> What kind of cards are supported in Debian (Testing)? >> >> What I have mind, if it is possible, it to get a bluetooth card for the >> PCMCIA slot and use it for a mouse and a headset and probably also for a >> cell phone. >> >> Thanks. > > If you have USB on your laptop may I suggest using a USB Bluetooth > adapter. They are smaller, cost less and uses less power than PCMCIA cards.
This is another question that came to mind when I searching a bit more about this topic. From your comments it looks like the USB bluetooth adapter provides exactly the same functionality as a PC card. When I was searching for pcmcia cards, I noticed that there is huge choice in USB bluetooth adapters as compared to pcmcia cards. > Here is the lsusb result on the one I use. > > Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth > Dongle (HCI mode) > > No need to install drivers. Plug N Play :) Very interesting. You have made some valid points in USB bluetooth adapters. > > I've used this with several mobile phones and headsets. It also works > with my bluetooth mouse but have not had the time to fully set it up and > test it yet. > > I'm guessing that one of the reason you want to connect a mobile phone > is to access the phonebook and calendar. I've had issue with this using > several mobile phone access packages, especially with newer mobile phones. Yes, that is what I had in mind. > > An easy solutions to this is to, on the phone, export all your contacts > into a vCard file. You can then copy it to you computer via bluetooth. > All the addressbook applications in Debian except Icedove's address book > can read, edit, save, import, export vCard format. So now you can edit > the contents of the vCard and export it back to the phone. You should > delete all the contact from the phone first before you import the > new/changed set of contacts back into the phone. Or you will end up with > duplicate contacts on the phone. I think the same works for he calendar > but I have not tried it yet. Nice to know. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
