[ILUG] suggestions on a USB<->Bluetooth dongle?

[John A. Kinsella]

I've recently bought a Nokia 6230 & after a little initial confusion
and with a little help & a lot of Googling I can
upload/download files (mp3's, jpegs, mpegs) to/from phone.

I bought a bluetooth dongle from carphone warehouse where I got phone -
little purple one, works fine (about E40).

Sending stuff from phone to Linux "just works" on my aging FC1 setup.

gnome-obex-send just sends stuff "to the phone" & you engage in a
dialogue at the phone end to specify destination. Problem is that it
uses built-in memory which is limited, even if you have a 1Gb mmc.

obexftp is your friend if you want to send files to a specified memory
card & folder

Lidl recently had card readers for 14.99 which Linux supports, much
faster than bt if you want to send a lot of files.

Only thing that I needed the Windows Nokia software for is to build
playlists from the mp3's that I have sent to the phone.

John


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:36, Brian Foster wrote:
>  anyone have any suggestions on a USB↔bluetooth dongle?
>  e.g., particularly good units, or units to avoid, or even
>  just sage advice (or useful sites?).
> 
>  a few searches using google™ suggest these things just tend
>  to work (on Linux, if the `bluez' et.al. s/w is installed,
>  and with my distro (SUSE 9.1, kernel 2.6)).  when there
>  are problems, it _seems_ to usually be the other end?
> 
>  ATM, I am mostly just interested/curious what I can do with
>  my mobile (yes, I broke down and got one, mostly 'cuz I'm
>  looking for a new job (see my .sig, below)): Motorola v600.
>  more google searches suggest that endpoint is a minor but
>  not an insurmountable/unsolved issue.
> 
> cheers!
> 	-blf-
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