[ILUG] USB Bluetooth and Linux

[Timothy Murphy]

On Wed 20 Jul 2005 10:32, Dermot Daly wrote:

> I'm about to invest in a USB bluetooth adapter so I can communicate
> with my mobile phone.  Has anyone any gotcha/things to watch out
> for/good experiences/which one to buy/where etc. etc.

gnokii works pretty well with bluetooth, in my experience.
It now works with most phones, I think, not just Nokia.
(It can work in AT mode, which I think covers virtually all new phones.)
It is very actively developed,
and the developers are extremely helpful -
queries on the gnokii mailing list are usually answered
within one or two days.

There are a number of associated programs - by different authors -
which don't work as well in my experience,
eg xgnokii and gnokiifs - which is supposed to mount your phone
as a coda filesystem, but which seems to do nothing with my Nokia 6310,
though that may well be due to an error on my part.

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