Both of yours(Edwin, Thor) sound fairly promising.  Wart-style is the
style that's in these days when it comes to USB Bluetooth dongles, and
I don't plan on moving it once it placed in my system.

I am usually at every week's meeting, and I do believe that we have met
Edwin.  Last week we were talking about Python and Django.  I will be
the one with the Thinkpad laptop.

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:34:35 -0600
d-_-b <[email protected]> wrote:

> I bought one at a dollar store cash register that works just fine with
> linux.  Drawbacks are that it is a tiny "wart" style dongle and so can be
> forgotten/misplaced easily.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Edwin Amsler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I've got one that definitely works with Linux. I'll check the chipset on
> > it and bring it to the space tonight.
> >
> > I'll be wearing a green shirt and ripped jeans that are strangely blue but
> > also orange.
> >
> > On 2014-02-24, at 4:19 PM, 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.
> > >
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