Amish Mehta wrote:

On 2/24/08, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:

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I am planning to buy a usb-bluetooth device from Lam. Road, that's compatible with Linux too.

Just 1 week back I bought 'Enter' bluetooth dongle. Works well on FC6. Cost 200Rs.

Thanks! As per your tip, I got the 'Enter' bluetooth device. Rates appear to have gone up and the lowest price I got was 225/- from Benley's Infotech in Tara Temple Lane in Lam. Road. Everyone else quotes from 250/- to 350/-.

The device works in Linux and after some trial and error, got KDEbluetooth working. My phones get detected and even some folders and music files are visible but image folders show no files.

Looks like I will have to do some more R&D on the software side.

Easwar Hariharan wrote:

I might buy one dongle too if a new phone I'm planning to buy is not compatible with *nix or *nix refuses to mount/recognise it.

Just one question: Where do you plug it in?Into the USB slot?

Yes. It is a usb device to add bluetooth connectivity to your pc. It resembles a thumb drive.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:

A phone that uses a direct mini usb cable may be more better in detection than one with the flat connector-usb adapter. At a client's place, Kububtu 7.04 directly detected a Sony Erricson W810 phone and its contents. It showed up as 2 usb drives ( internal and external memory ) on the desktop.

Other users on this list could share their experiences.

On FC6, I had to edit hcid.conf as per my requirements (it might work without editing) and run bluez-pin manually for the first time. I downloaded kdebluetooth but it didnt work.

But recently I upgraded kdelibs and kdenetwork packages and then I noticed that it automatically asked for pin. But I didnt try kdebluetooth after that, I believe it might be working now.

For file transfer I use obexftp command line client (phone should support obex protocol) and for contacts backup I use gnokii (had to compile latest one). My mobile is Nokia N70.

Btw how much speed are you getting with file transfer over bluetooth for me 1MB takes abt 45-50 seconds. But over USB cable it takes 2-3 seconds only.

My motherboard supports USB1 only, so I got PCI2USB card with 5 USB2 ports, but speed over bluetooth still is the same. I suppose thats because mobile does not support faster speeds or do I have to specify parameters to kernel module to support faster speed over PCI2USB card?

Amish.