On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 09:43 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson 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. >
Under gnome, start the bluetooth-applet applet (yum install bluetooth-applet) Under KDE, start the kbluetooth applet (yum install kdebluetooth). P.S. kdebluetooth is a bit buggy - beware. (I should know - I maintain the package :)) - Gilboa ================================================================= 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]
