On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:19 +0300, Nitzan Brumer wrote: > I bought the LVT-010 bluetooth dongle for my acer one. I use it with > Ubuntu 8.10 and it works great out of the box. no problem there. > http://www.bug.co.il/prodtxt.asp?id=6233&perur=1&t=10
Thanks also to Geoffrey Mendelson, Noam Rathaus and Rami Rosen. The message was that nowadays Linux compatibility of Bluetooth devices is not a problem. I ended up buying a no-name brand, which looks the same as LVT-010. It identified itself to lsusb as: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) According to http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=bluetooth this USB dongle is Linux compatible. While this dongle was found by my Nokia E71 cellphone, initially I was not successful in doing things with it. However http://howto-pages.org/v600i_bluetooth/ provided me with useful advice how to test the connection, which proved to work out of the box (except for failure to pair and for not working under regular user): - '/sbin/lsmod' showed rfcomm,hci_usb,l2cap. - As root, 'hciconfig' displayed details about device hci0. In particular, I saw the line: UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN - 'hcitool scan' found my Nokia E71, in which I activated Bluetooth and set it to be discoverable. - 'l2ping xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' (where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the E71's address as reported by 'hcitool scan') worked. The document was not up-to-date when it came to dealing with PIN helpers. hcid daemon was already active, with the -x -s options. man hcid provided no explanation of the -x option, while -s option meant that an internal SDP server was activated (probably meaning that no sdpd daemon is necessary). - The command 'kbluetoothd' is now 'kbluetooth' and it did not discover my E71 when run under my user; but under root it did discover - if my E71's bluetooth was already active when 'kbluetooth' was invoked. Then when it accepted files from the E71, they were saved under root. - 'kbtobexclient' worked out of the box, and I was successful in copying a file from PC to the E71. - I was not successful in my attempts to pair the PC with the E71. P.S.: my system is Debian Lenny, with bluez installed from Debian repositories. --- Omer -- MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC world. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
