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On Thursday 02 November 2006 2:27 pm, Grant wrote: |
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> I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't |
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> have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and |
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> bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I |
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> be researching both devices' Linux compatibility, or just the adapter? |
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> - Grant |
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Well as already mentioned, just about any adapter should be fine. If you feel |
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like doing some research, find something with a Camridge Silicon Radio (CSR) |
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chipset, they are the most common and consequently the best supported. |
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As far as the headset goes, you should be fine. I use a Sony Ericsson |
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HBH-IV835 with my gentoo/amd64 pc without too many issues. The driver that |
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couples the headset to an alsa audio device is at |
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http://bluetooth-alsa.sf.net |
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As far as ebuilds go, they are in Liquidx's dev overlay (layman -a liquidx), |
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called btsco and btsco-kernel. There is a marginally outdated but still |
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useful howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_a_bluetooth_headset |
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Note: you will probably want to install bluez-libs and bluez-utils 2.25, 3.7 |
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opens up a whole new set of problems with the dbus pin authentication, you |
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really just don't want to go there. Your life will also be made a lot easier |
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if you install kdebluetooth or gnome-bluetooth to get a frontend for |
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configuration, device searches, file transfer (if you have a bluetooth phone |
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also), etc. |
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--Thomas |
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