Bluetooth hardware support for desktop PC?

NutMonkey · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 15

I had gotten used to taking hardware support for granted in Linux until I bought a Canon printer without doing any research first.. Now I want to play with my bluetooth phone so I need to get something for my PC (desktop, not a laptop). Can anyone recommend a USB or PCI bluetooth receiver with well-supported linux drivers?

nephros · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:26 am Post subject:

I simply bought the cheapest BT USB dongle I could find; it's from Manhattan.

That is not to recommend that specific one as I haven't tried others , but this one's working fine.
(Only thing is that it has a blue LED in it that starts blinking as soon as you activate it, kind of annoying. Also, the windows driver is 50meg (!) compressed how's that for bloat?)

I would expect any USB dongle to work with linux though, as they don't seem to need any chip-related drivers in linux, just the usb and bluetooth modules.
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Mr. Garr · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

hi
I have a weird problem, I cannot find any Bletooth Support in the kernel config
I've found "USB Bluetooth TTY" but in other tjread (very old) i've read that it should be "Bluetooth Support" (not USB...) :\
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Mr. Garr · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:18 am Post subject:

hi
I have a weird problem, I cannot find any Bletooth Support in the kernel config
I've found "USB Bluetooth TTY" but in other tjread (very old) i've read that it should be "Bluetooth Support" (not USB...) :\
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nephros · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

In recent 2.6 kernels it is under Device Drivers -> Networking Support -> Bluetooth subsystem.
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