Rob wrote: > I have a desktop PC without a build-in bluetooth device. Thus I need to > buy a USB dongle for exchanging data over bluetooth with my mobile > phone. Most (low-cost) USB dongles that I find on the web have the > specifications for the OS to be some flavor of Windows. > > Hence, I'm suspicious whether I have to be very careful which USB > dongle to buy; or is bluetooth over USB nowadays at a level that pretty > much every dongle is supported in Linux? I'd say almost every USB Bluetooth dongle will work with bluez; but you might have to download firmware to get some working. Any Bluetooth dongle with a CSR (Cambridge Silicon Research) chip will work out of the box. I think most cheap dongles use this chip. I bought one from China for $5 with a CSR chip which worked fine until it fell apart. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
