On Wed, June 17, 2009 08:14, Stephen Irons wrote: > Some one on Trademe is selling little Bluetooth adapters for $10 + $2 > postage [1]. It is the size of the tip of my thumb. Just right for plugging > into one of the USB holes of your netbook. > > I bought one. Plugged it in. It Just Worked. > > > Up popped the little Bluetooth icon on my Gnome panel. Discovered my > phone. Paired and set as 'trusted'. Browsed files on phone from PC. Sent > file from PC to phone. > > Bluetooth seems to have come a long way recently. > > > Unfortunately, I cannot yet send files from phone to PC. You need to > install 'gnome-user-share' which also brings in Apache (so that you can > share files using webdav). It is a known packaging problem, and I can't > bring myself to do it on my laptop.
Excellent! I did the same thing two years ago. I was using Mepis 6 on an old ThinkPad. Mepis has KDE, and it too Just Worked. I had no trouble dragging and dropping files either way with Konqueror. It surprises me that Gnome makes a distinction between a file on a phone and any other removable filestore. Perhaps you have overlooked soemthing? A
