On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 06:00, Bob Marcan <bob.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:59:06 +0100 > Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:14 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I would like to buy a cheap Bluetooth receiver/transmitter for my > > > > desktop computer running Fedora 32. I have searched eBay for that, > but > > > > meanwhile learned that most of them do not work on Linux. So, could > > > > you please advise me on that? > > > > > > Where did you see that most don't work? I think it's the opposite. As > > > far as I know, they all work. It's USB wifi devices that you're more > > > likely to have trouble with (at least 5GHz ones). I recently needed a > > > bluetooth dongle for BLE and picked one of the cheaper ones I could > find > > > and it just worked. > > > > Thanks, Samuel and George. I found issues of compatibility with Linux at: > > > > https://www.thetechlounge.com/best-bluetooth-adapter/ > > > > Meanwhile, I bought the following Bluetooth dongle, which was very > > cheap and therefore the risk is low: > > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/143581114516 > > > > Paul > > > Belkin F8T017 > 10 years old, BT 2.1 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: new > full-speed USB device number 22 using ehci-pci > 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: New USB > device found, idVendor=050d, idProduct=0017 > 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: New USB > device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 > 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: Product: > BLUETOOTH USB +EDR ADAPTER Class 1 v2.1 UHE > 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: > Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp > 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: > SerialNumber: 000A3A88235E > -- George N. White III
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