[Wolves] Bluetooth Dongle

[Dave Morley]

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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