I've been trying to follow instuctions on the synce website (http://www.synce.org/index.php/Windows_Mobile_2005_Support) about making my PocketPC phone talk to Fedora 5. The laptop does not have internal bluetooth, and after a struggle, I've learned that the usb chip on the phone is flaky and so it is not supported by the kernel's usb drivers (that's "usb_rndis" and it may never work). So I need to use bluetooth to connect the laptop to the phone. I find many different websites for different Linuxex and all seem to have different opinions on how a person ought to do this, and I am afraid that none of them will be relevant to the newest kernel & hal in Fedora. (I've had the problem before that I followed the usb advice of others and ended up making a lot of hacks that were wrong & unnecessary on Fedora). So now I ask 1. Is there any big reason why I should buy the more expensive built-in bluetooth component from Dell (for this Latitude D820) rather than the cheaper usb bluetooth dongle I can get for $10 on www.pricewatch.com? 2. Suppose I have the "right" bluetooth device, can somebody who uses Fedora tell me what kinds of hacks did you make to activate it? I'm reading websites for people who use Ubuntu or Mandrake and they seem to have different names for such basic things as the kernel modules that support bluetooth devices. I see some people suggesting I need to find a PIN file, some create a custom dun file, and miscellaneous other tidbits, and I can't even be sure if those pieces of advice apply to software that is in Fedora. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
