[ale] using a Bluetooth dongle

[Jim Philips]

My final post on this thread, but I finally found some software that does
exactly what I want to do:

http://www.stgraber.org/2007/05/18/bluetooth-headset-manager/

Pairing with my headset was a snap. I got Skype to start working with it,
but Skype hung up. This was to be expected, thought, since Skype has never
played well with my soundcard in Linux.



On 7/27/07, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> 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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