[ale] Bluetooth Headset

[Jim Philips]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 01:41:23 pm Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Thanks for that information.  Here is what I did and read it to beware!
>
> #1.  Went to Frys and bought a Vakoss TC-B712-UB BT adapter.
>      It was on sale for $9.99
>
> #2.  FC6 saw it
> #3.  Started up vmware with Windoze XP
> #4.  Oh!  the driver disk they sent me was actually
>      blank.  Dug wrapper from trash can outside.  Went
>      to http://www.vakoss.com and found the driver (158M). Why are BT
>      packages so huge?  The driver page must be outsourced because it
>      is the only page with popups.  Guess what?  The first popup took
>      me to a Chinese porn site.  So a company outsources its download
>      area to a site that sends me porn popups.  Beware!
> #5.  I see 2 drivers v5 and V4.  Naturally I load V5 in Winders
> #6.  10 minutes later "Bluetooth License Check Failed"  WTF?
> #7.  Spend 30 minutes on Google
> #8.  Remove V5 and load V4.
> #9.  10 minutes later I sync Motorla H500 and I'm on EchoLink!
> #10. FC6 having issues go to Xubuntu 7.10
> #11. I can ping the headset but have not figured out how to get it
>      to connect
>
> I'll follow your instructions.  I suppose BT support is in the infancy
> stages like I remember USB support years back.  I was expecting that the
> user friendly disti called Ubuntu may have had this figured out.  There
> must be a bit more work to be done and I'll use VIM to enable my
> devices :)
>
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:55 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Sat January 5 2008, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > Anyone use a headset under Linux?
> >
> > not yet, but I might:)
> > I bought the dongle for my laptop, and I have a bluetooth headset..
> >
> > I did a goodle search and found this:
> >
> > http://www.linux.ie/articles/bluetoothheadset.php
> >
> > looks like it can be done.

I spent about a week on this task some months back. The end result was that 
the dongle seemed to function and gbtsco said it had connected to my headset. 
Everything seemed to be correct and absolutely nothing worked. I spent  lot 
of time researching it, but it never got better. I  the end, I concluded it 
was a losing effort.