[ILUG] suggestions on a USB<->Bluetooth dongle?

[Philip Trickett (List)]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 05:20 +0200, Brian Foster wrote:

> 
>  yes, it's a Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR).
>  BTW, I've _not_ heard/read before the claim only
>  CSR works out-of-the-box.  you could be correct,
>  but I know of no confirmation of this?
> 
> cheers!
> 	-blf-

My MSI 6967 USB dongle works out of the box.

Plug it in, wait about 5 seconds, and off I go.

I have no problem with unplugging without bringing the device down
either.  Only thing I notice, is that my mouse is unresponsive while the
dongle is being initialised. (Which is not that surprising, seeing as it
is USB).

Running Fedora Core 4 Test 2 if that is of any help:
[phil at unagi ~]$ /usr/sbin/hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:10:DB:E0:42:23 ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
        UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
        RX bytes:5599 acl:191 sco:0 events:328 errors:0
        TX bytes:5175 acl:263 sco:0 commands:50 errors:0
        Features: 0xff 0xff 0x0f 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
        Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
        Link policy:
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
        Name: 'BlueZ'
        Class: 0x000000
        Service Classes: Unspecified
        Device Class: Miscellaneous,
        HCI Ver: 1.1 (0x1) HCI Rev: 0x20d LMP Ver: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subver:
0x20d
        Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)

[phil at unagi ~]$ uname -a
Linux unagi 2.6.11-1.1236_FC4 #1 Mon Apr 11 12:18:02 EDT 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux


Also, do you use Gnome or KDE? The GNOME bluetooth tools are good for
file transfer.

One other nice utility:
http://www.geocities.com/saravkrish/progs/bluemote/
Works on SE phones, so sorry Brian, but Tim, you might have some fun
with it. Works great with my T630.

Phil