On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:57:12 +0300 "Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Geoff, > > There are few howto's for installing and using bluetooth devices under > Linux. There is some GUI support both in KDE and in gnome. I don't > know about GNOME gui parts, but in KDE there's KDE Blue tooth > (http://bluetooth.kmobiletools.org/), so it really depends if your > distribution has some RPMS/DEBS packages ready for it. > > As for GNOME, I do remember that it has some bluetooth support for > sending files across, but I think you'll need some packages to show > some GUI stuff, I don't remember their names. > > Thanks, > Hetz > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I have a cheap bluetooth USB dongle. It was made by ISSC and is > > called an ISSCBTM. Under Windows I get a nice bluetooth icon in > > my system tray, and a GUI to use it to discover nearby devices. > > > > Under Linux, I can't see a thing. Unfortunately the only actual > > bluetooth peripheral I have at the moment is a cell phone which > > belongs to my wife and is with her. > > > > I looked for the dongle and found it in /proc/bus/usb/devices. > > It seems to be there and have drivers loaded, but I'm not sure. > > > > Is there any bluetooth gui which includes device support and > > discovery? I'm running Fedora 8. > > Under gnome (also works with xfce) there is bluetooth-applet from bluez-gnome (under debian, don't know the fedora equivalent). It lets me discover and authorize the dongle (I can synchronize with the computer, I recall having some issue using it the other way around but I don't recall at the moment) For transfering files there are various obex protocols (obexftp, obexfs, obexpushd and obex-data-server for dbus functionality) I believe that nautilus can see the phone also but I don't know what packages are needed. > > To complicate things, the computer is somewhere else, and I am > > connecting with VNC (I can use a remote X session if need be), > > so I can't unplug it and see what happens. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Geoff. > > > > -- > > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
