USB based Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

[William Muriithi]

Hi,

Cool. I will pick one tomorrow.  I am surprised how cheap it is
compare to another one I say in future shop. It was selling almost
twice as much and had something to do with broadcom, and since those
guys have a reputation of being hostile to open source, I left it
alone.

Regards,
William

On 26/02/2008, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:11:08AM +0300, William Muriithi wrote:
>  > I want to attempt using bluetooth to send out sms. This will entail
>  > tether a desktop to the cell phone for connectivity. So, I think I
>  > will need a bluetooth hardware that should play well with bluez (The
>  > Linux bluetooth stack) and Nokia bluetooth stack. I am assuming that
>  > Nokia has reused most of their software across most of their phones,
>  > so being specific about the phone isn't necessary. If that assumption
>  > is however wrong, I would love to connect to a Nokia 6300.
>  >
>  > Now, the first thing I did was to go on line for some hardware
>  > compatibility thing of sort. Haha, seem that such a list existed
>  > sometime back, but apparently Marcel Holtmann was forced to take it
>  > down. Looking closer, it look like its still there but haven't been
>  > update for over 2 years. Thats when I thought may be I should ask
>  > here, just in case someone has worked on it recently.
>  >
>  > Whats the best hardware to pick up to enable me fulfill the above
>  > small project? I would  appreciate  sharing any pertinent experience
>  > here
>
>
> Well a quick search found this adapter:
>  http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=014623&cid=IO.940
>
>  Supports bluetooth 2.0 and all that.
>
>  Another quick search found a bunch of ubuntu users saying it worked out
>  of the box with no configuration required on their part using gutsy.
>
>  My wife's tablet PC has no problem using the internal bluetooth adapter
>  either under linux, although I have no idea how one would make it
>  actually do anything but it is detected and claims to be working.
>
>
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>  Len Sorensen
>
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