<div dir="ltr">Hi Omer,<div><br></div><div>I think all of them will work. I bought mine which includes a mini disc with the drivers (no Linux drivers). I inserted the plug, and my Fedora machine recognized it without any issues.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I think you can buy any of them. If I'm not mistaken, they all use the same chip.</div><div><br></div><div>Hetz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Omer Zak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il">w1@zak.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I visited a nearby computer shop, and asked which Bluetooth dongles do<br>
they have, and whether they are compatible with Linux.<br>
<br>
They have four models, which are mostly difficult to identify (typically<br>
made in China and with no clear model number):<br>
- BT-USB-P Dynamode<br>
- GPT USB04<br>
- HK-890/USB04B (Min. of Communications approval No. 5113614)<br>
- One more model without anything which looks like a model number<br>
<br>
The boxes list compatibility with various MS-Windows operating systems,<br>
emphasizing Vista-ready. One of them claims also compatiblity with Mac<br>
OS X. None of them mentioned Linux compatibility.<br>
<br>
Of course, to find the USB ID of the dongles (the surefire way to check<br>
Linux compatibility), one has to open the packages and insert the<br>
dongles into a PC, one by one. Not exactly the idea which endears one<br>
to the computer shop personnel.<br>
<br>
I then looked for the above putative model names in<br>
<a href="http://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/listings.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/listings.cfm</a> and none of the above was<br>
found.<br>
<br>
So I am asking the group for recent experiences in buying Bluetooth<br>
dongles and trying to use them in Debian Lenny (or other distributions<br>
using version 3.36-3 of bluez) - how safe is it nowadays to buy a<br>
no-name brand of a Bluetooth dongle for use in a Linux system?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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