Bluetooth in Linux

Trappies · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 55

Hi,

I recently purchased a NOKIA 6600 cellphone aswell as a GIGABYTE USB bluetooth dongle and am wanting to know :

- How do I enable bluetooth in Linux.
- What is a suitble equal to M$ Outlook, with which to sync my cellphone.
- and what would be a suitble application to manage my bluetooth device.

Regards,
Davin
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gmichels · Guru Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 480 Location: Brazil

You'll need to enable some stuff in your kernel. Search the forums or look at www.bluez.org, there's plenty of information available.

As for managing the device, I use kde so kdebluetooth is my choice. It works very fine, integrated with konqueror with kio slaves. It won't only do pim synchronization (yet).

If you use gnome, there's gnome-bluetooth. Also the pim sync stuff exists in gnome, although I can't remember the name of the package as I never used it.

rob.sharp · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

Multisync is a good sync package, although the 6600 doesn't support IrMC over bluetooth, so you can't sync :-(

Trappies · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 55

Trejkaz · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:49 am Post subject:

IrMC is Infrared for Mobile Communications.

This bluetooth thing is looking mighty interesting at the moment from a gadget experimentation point. My wife has a bluetooth-enabled phone and with a dongle I can have some cheap fun (dongle is less than 10% the price of a phone.) :-)

Are USB bluetooth devices standardised? That is, would it be possible to buy a reasonably cheap device and expect it to work out of the box? Or is it going to be a chipset hunting nightmare like it was with the webcam?

smart · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 455

If got this mitsumi USB dongle bought here in the next best electronics store. worked outta the box.

mallchin · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:08 pm Post subject:

Anyone got multisync working with Nokia 6600?
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mallchin · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:13 am Post subject:

It looks like the newer Nokias might not be supported yet.

I managed to connect via syncml over gprs but got an error:

mallchin · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

Appears multisync / libwbxml need extra work to communicate with newer Nokias... Want it now :twisted:

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