Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

[Dan Shimshoni]

Hi,
Just a little question:
is this Acer  a 64 bit machine ? or 32 bit machine ?


2009/7/28 Nitzan Brumer <nitzanb at gmail.com>:
> 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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