[ale] using a Bluetooth dongle

David Tomaschik ozone at webgroup.org
Fri Jul 27 20:52:14 EDT 2007


Jim Philips wrote:
> I bought a cheap Bluetoot dongle at Fry's a couple of weks ago. So
> far, I have a hard time figuring out what you can do with it. I get a
> netofication in both Gnome and KDE when the dongle is plugged in to
> the USB drive. But other than that, I have no idea how to access it or
> do anything with it. Does anybody have eny experience here? The device
> is recognized by the kernel:
>
> rebus at rebus:~$ /usr/sbin/lsusb
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 1131:1001 Integrated System Solution Corp.
> KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter
>
> But beyond that, I see no way to do *anything* with it. Google
> searches weren't a lot of help. I'm running Kubuntu 7.04 with the
> 2.6.20 kernel.
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Do you have any bluetooth devices?  Kubuntu has a good interface for
bluetooth, IIRC.

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