Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

[Nitzan Brumer]

I bought the LVT-010 bluetooth dongle for my acer one. I use it with Ubuntu
8.10 and it works great out of the box. no problem there.
http://www.bug.co.il/prodtxt.asp?id=6233&perur=1&t=10

2009/7/28 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

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