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

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:36:47 +0200
  | From: Brian Foster <blf at blf.utvinternet.ie>
  | 
  | anyone have any suggestions on a USB↔bluetooth dongle?  [ ... ]

 thanks for the suggestions and comments.

 I eventually bought a Gigabyte model (no particular
 reason), and it seems to being working fine.  but,
 as Rob said of a different dongle, the blinking blue
 light is bloody annoying in a darkened room....  ;-\ 

 it does seem to be the case that if I unplug the dongle
 whilst it is in the `up' state, the Linux system hangs!
 and if I take the dongle `down', then I cannot bring it
 back `up' without removing and reinserting it.  ;-(
 (since I don't like hanging my system, the testing has
 not been too exhaustive.  hence, the proximate causes
 and/or work-arounds might be something else?)

 I'm still having some trouble doing much of anything
 with the mobile phone (Motorola v600), but I expected
 this and so am not (yet!) too concerned.  I have been
 able to bind with the phone, query it, but so far no
 luck with (e.g.) obexftp(1).  guess I now know what
 next weekend's project will be!

 and I've had the same experience as Juan, detecting
 other people's bluetooth-enabled somethings (mobiles,
 I assume --- none has stayed in range for long enough
 to (manually) query further).

cheers!
	-blf-
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