Linux-friendly Bluetooth dongle?

[Kelsay, Brian - OCIO-ITS, Kansas City, MO]

You should be able to get any generic Bluetooth dongle and have it work.  There are only 2 or 3 possible chips in the dongles based on some reading I did a few years ago.  Same goes for USB device controller chips.

I had a generic BT from some PC parts reseller site, that I got for $5-6 and Ubuntu recognized it immediately.  This was about 2 years ago.  I was plugging it in just to see if it would work.  YMMV

Brian Kelsay

From: On Behalf Of Peter Cross
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Linux-friendly Bluetooth dongle?

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<mailto: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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Cheers!

Peter J. Cross
San Antonio, TX

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