It's not a Winnipeg solution, but I bet you'd find a really cheap Bluetooth dongle on dealextreme.com. Free shipping (albeit it takes about 2-3 weeks) with them, too.
On 24 February 2014 23:19, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > I've been looking around the city, and oddly Bluetooth USB dongles(or > at least the one I want based on the Broadcom chipset) are hard to come > by these days... > > I'm wondering if anyone might have a Bluetooth USB dongle which is > known to be nicely compatible with Linux(namely a broadcom one) that > they'd be willing to sell me? > > I've been working on a presence service on my laptop which has > bluetooth on it already, and am I am wanting to also place this same > service on my main workstation. The service uses bluetooth to > basically detect my presence, and allows me to do various tasks. I am > planning on extending the service to enable cryptography, so that my > phone and a special app is required to do a 2-pass authentication in > order to decrypt a dm-crypt device. > > So, if anyone has a spare dongle they wouldn't mind separating from, > I'd be willing to pay $20 for it. This seems to be the average > price range for the ones I am attempting to purchase. It doesn't need > to to say support Bluetooth 4.0, 2.1 is perfectly fine for my > requirements. > > -- > Kevin <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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