[Wolves] Bluetooth Dongle

Kris Douglas webbox.uk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 29 20:33:08 GMT 2008


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:28 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:12 +0000, Broadfield Robert wrote:
>  > >  > I bought a mobile phone about a month ago (Samsung U600) which has
>  > >  > bluetooth.  Thought it's about time I loaded some music on it.
>  > >  > However, I need to buy a Bluetooth USB dongle.  My laptop currently
>  > >  > has ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) installed.  I spotted a Belkin 10 Meter range
>  > >  > dongle at Argos for £12.99 (was £15.99 in the previous catalogue).
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Any idea if this one will work?
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Rob
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>  > >  Most usb bluetooth dongles just work.  How ever you will need to install
>  > >  gnome-vfs-obexftp to actually use the bluetooth system.
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>  > Never had the install thing problem, seemed to just work for me. I use
>  > a Nikimi.. works well.. or is it mikomi? i can't remember.. but it's
>  > something like that, and it works a treat.
>  >
>  Kris it's more that the gnome-vfs-obexftp makes the bluetooth applet do
>  useful things like connect to your phone rather than throw up a random
>  error message.  In Ubuntu at any rate.
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Ah ok

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