Hi Geoff, There are few howto's for installing and using bluetooth devices under Linux. There is some GUI support both in KDE and in gnome. I don't know about GNOME gui parts, but in KDE there's KDE Blue tooth (http://bluetooth.kmobiletools.org/), so it really depends if your distribution has some RPMS/DEBS packages ready for it.
As for GNOME, I do remember that it has some bluetooth support for sending files across, but I think you'll need some packages to show some GUI stuff, I don't remember their names. Thanks, Hetz On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a cheap bluetooth USB dongle. It was made by ISSC and is > called an ISSCBTM. Under Windows I get a nice bluetooth icon in > my system tray, and a GUI to use it to discover nearby devices. > > Under Linux, I can't see a thing. Unfortunately the only actual > bluetooth peripheral I have at the moment is a cell phone which > belongs to my wife and is with her. > > I looked for the dongle and found it in /proc/bus/usb/devices. > It seems to be there and have drivers loaded, but I'm not sure. > > Is there any bluetooth gui which includes device support and > discovery? I'm running Fedora 8. > > To complicate things, the computer is somewhere else, and I am > connecting with VNC (I can use a remote X session if need be), > so I can't unplug it and see what happens. > > Thanks in advance, > > Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
