Linux-friendly bluetooth dongle?

Peter Cross pjcrux at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 10:11:49 CST 2011


Microcenter has some decent dongles for roughly $20
<http://bit.ly/twte5S>dollars that work well. I haven't found one yet
that didn't work with
Either Fedora 14 (or newer) or Ubuntu 10.04 (or Newer). Bluetooth is pretty
much standardized within Linux. However, the capabilities you're speaking
of may not be present natively in all distros.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Peter

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kendric Beachey
<kendric.beachey at gmail.com>wrote:

> This month's Linux Journal has an article about making your computer
> auto-lock when you leave your desk, and auto-unlock when you return,
> by sensing the leaving/returning of the bluetooth phone in your
> pocket.  (You DO take your mobile phone with you....don't you??)  We
> have a few jokesters around here that make this sound like a good
> idea.
>
> But neither my desktop nor my laptop have built-in bluetooth, at least
> not anything Ubuntu 11.10 can find.  Does anyone know of a good
> bluetooth dongle that works well with Linux?  (and is fairly
> affordable?)
>
> Kendric Beachey
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San Antonio, TX

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