[Wylug-help] RH7.3 and Bluetooth.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:22 pm, mikeb@gbdirect.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:37:54PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm just about to be given a new mobile - mine's getting tired.  The new
> > mobile - a Nokia 6310 - supports Bluetooth.
> >
> > How does RH7.3 behave with it?
> > Does it support it?
> > If yes, is it reliable?
> >
> > To use it i'll need a PCMCIA card. Anyone got any recommendations?
> >
> > I've currently got an advent 5372 and communicate with my 6210 via a
> > DLR-3P cable using standard Hayes compat. AT commands.
>
> I'm using 7.2 with up-to-date bluetooth modules and a 3com bluetooth card
> from dabs.com plus a Sony Ericsson t681. Budget a couple of days or
> a week of nights to get the damn stuff working. I used it for a while
> and it was OK but the bluetooth burns battery heavily on the phone.
>
> The worst of it - once you have done all the frigging around with
> the RFCOMM stack, registering the devices with each other etc, you
> still only have a serial connection to the phone's internal modem
> and then have to run ppp over that if you want to use GPRS.
>
> If I'd known I could have used a ten-quid serial cable with the phone (I
> now have one) I'd never have gone near Bluetooth. It does have a range of
> about 20 yards in my house though. In the car the Bluetooth is handy
> because it frees up the laptop serial port for the GPS receiver.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike

Thanks for that Mike.  For the amount I use it I think I'll stick with using
the cable.

Gary
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