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On 2019.07.31 12:25, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2019-07-30 22:44, Dale wrote: |
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>> I wonder, if I bought a bluetooth USB thingy and put that on my |
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>> puter, would that help any? Since I hooked up my wifi router and it |
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>> uses that, would that help? Or is the USB cable directly connected |
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>> the best way? |
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> I have a USB to BT adaptor. It's worse than paperweight: I could |
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> never make it work on gentoo, or any other kind of Linux. I think it |
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> might be like the infamous Winmodems of old, requiring a proprietary |
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> driver to do anything at all. |
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I have one that works just fine. It shows up with lsusb as: |
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Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth |
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Dongle (HCI mode) |
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I ordered it online, for not much money, but I'd have to dig to see if |
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I still have any records of where I ordered it. (eBay is likely) I'd |
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also have to do some digging to see if I needed to modify my kernel |
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config to add anything for it. So far, I have only used it for a |
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headset, and I know I went through a number of trials and errors before |
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getting it to work consistently, but it does work fine. |
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Jack |
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