Re: [ilugd] Linux compatible USB Bluetooth dongle

2004-06-18 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
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   On Friday 11 Jun 2004 11:18 pm, vi vivek said:
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vi there was an article in pcquest which had info on using a bluetooth
vi dongle with gnome 2.4 and kernel 2.6. it was
vi
vi CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) chipset based USB Bluetooth dongle and
vi configured it under PCQLinux 2004
vi
vi yu can check the same at
vi http://www.pcquest.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?artid=56058
vi

That article got nothing useful. Anyways, there are enough howto's on the net 
relating to setting up bluetooth devices so it barely took me an hour of 
apt-get and configuration stuff to do all the stuff I wanted to.

Well, the good news is that most of those benaami bluetooth USB dongles 
(only ones you can get from nehru place)  work on linux. Unless of course you 
are too unlucky and end up buying one with a chipset that is not supported at 
all under linux. but that is quite rare.


vi i've not used it myself, nor do i have any intentions at all to
 install vi pcqlinux 2004, but if it works with pcqlinux then it should work
 with vi any distribution with kernel 2.6 as it has built in bluetooth (and
 afaik vi SigmaTel IrDA too) support. and if yu use gnome as well, then sone
 pe vi suhaga
vi
vi http://usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth
vi http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr/#shots
vi
vi so, yu can use nautilus to transfer files :-) please do let me know
 if vi anything works out for yu. i was not successful using SigmaTel
 USB-IrDA vi dongle with kernel 2.4 inspite of adding stir4200.o module and
 enabling vi IrDA. i used obex to transfer files, and when i tried to send
 files from vi my nokia 6600 it did show the filename on the system but
 nothing vi happened :-(
vi
vi so, please please please let me know if yu are able to successfully
 use vi the phone (6600), atleast to transfer files
vi

I bought a 100 mtrs range USB dongle for 1350 bucks. it was benaami, but 
turned out to have CSR chipset.

[bhaskar!bhaskie:bt]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd

Plugged it in, compiled the bluetooth modules for the kernel, ran apt-get for 
a few packages like obexserver, p3nfsd etc, downloaded ussp-push (for the 
nokia 6600),  and with half an hour, i could access the whole file-system of 
my cellphone. Using konqueror, i can transfer files to and from the phone. 

I am going to repeat the work on my gentoo system running gnome in a couple of 
days. 

Now I can listen to ogg files on the phone, use the phone to control xmms 
(that's real neat), and finally, access the internet thru a bluetooth access 
point on my box. putty is available for free, and so is agilemessenger, so 
its quite a good experience.

[root!bhaskie:mnt]# ll /mnt/nokia_6600/E:/Sounds/Digital
total 2283
- -rwr--    1 root     root      1191175 Jun 18 15:13 Tribute_led_zep.ogg
- -rwr--    1 root     root      1504215 Jun 18 15:05 OnTheTurningAway.ogg
- -rwr--    1 root     root      1441107 Jun 18 14:43 war_pigs-live.ogg
- -rwr--    1 root     root       936596 Jun 18 07:20 Brown_eyed_girl.ogg

I modified a perl script to convert mp3's to oggs that play great on the nokia 
6600. they are resampled at 16000 Hz and mono. anything better wont give 
better output on the phone. The files are roughly around 1.2 MB, and they 
sound quite ok on the mono headset!

I can write a howto if anyone is interested, but I think there are enough on 
the net, so another one will be redundant. Let me know if you interested in 
any details however.


Bhaskar
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Re: [ilugd] Linux compatible USB Bluetooth dongle

2004-06-11 Thread arundeep Singh

--- Bhaskar Dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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  Hi,
   anyone using one of those USB bluetooth dongles from nehru place? 
 I need a feedback on :
 1. their compatibility with linux, 
 2. performance and reliability.
 
 I need to use the dongle with a nokia 6600 and a sony ericsson Z600. 
 I am 
 specifically looking for a dongle with any of these following
 chipsets - 
 Broadcom, CSR, Transilica, RTX, AVM or Silicon Wave, which are tested
 under 
 linux. ( more from
 http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html)
 
 I am not really interested in an IR solution but if anyone has had a
 good 
 experience with that, please let me know. 
 

i don't know which USB bluetooth dongle u r talking about but i bought
one from nehru place and it is working fine with linux.

performance and reliability? i had not worked that much.



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Re: [ilugd] Linux compatible USB Bluetooth dongle

2004-06-11 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
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On Friday 11 Jun 2004 5:08 pm, you wrote:

aS   Hi,
aSanyone using one of those USB bluetooth dongles from nehru place?
aS  I need a feedback on :
aS  1. their compatibility with linux,
aS  2. performance and reliability.
aS 
aS  I need to use the dongle with a nokia 6600 and a sony ericsson
 Z600. aS  I am
aS  specifically looking for a dongle with any of these following
aS  chipsets -
aS  Broadcom, CSR, Transilica, RTX, AVM or Silicon Wave, which are
 tested aS  under
aS  linux. ( more from
aS  http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html)
aS 

aS i don't know which USB bluetooth dongle u r talking about but i
 bought aS one from nehru place and it is working fine with linux.
aS
aS performance and reliability? i had not worked that much.
aS

Hi arundeep,

Check these 2 pics. These are the type of bluetooth USB dongles you get in the 
market these days; i am looking for something similar.

http://www.nurtec.de/pics/original/865y356.jpg
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B6B0JX.03.LZZZ.jpg


Can you tell me the brand, chipset and cost of the dongle you bought?

Did you require to patch the kernel, or used the regular stack ?

What do you use it for? 

Even if you have not used it much, at least you can tell whether you had any 
data transfer or device recognition problems.

As I told previously, I need to use it to transfer data to and from mobile 
phones. Some of the files and applications i need to transfer are 10-15MB 
size and I want to know if there are any problems with preformance etc.

Hope I am clear now.


Bhaskar
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