Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

[Nitzan Brumer]

32 bit, Its an Atom cpu

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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