From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfT5l-0003S2-TP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:18:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA23F5oW015522; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 03:15:06 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA23D94k004945 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 03:13:09 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so31980ugc for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:13:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UoQjhioSPrkE/l3Qw62ZvZ+erB9l4NFBKqI3232ZK2L/IghBOSOR0jFIVc7wM+TAk7Can76HA9bBEeh4NK/is84xbCsr0FdPJ3/BZ5FVujILG6+bEhzgjh9yYI6GazV38rp7O8SYSKzGKGQYxK/xSi+Ncord/vEmAUD5XP39o48= Received: by 10.78.139.1 with SMTP id m1mr643753hud; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from 210-246-53-106.paradise.net.nz ( [210.246.53.106]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 37sm1888626hub.2006.11.01.19.13.05; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:13:08 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Kear To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:11:58 +1300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10611011727h6a2eb22an23ddd367d921ed19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10611011727h6a2eb22an23ddd367d921ed19@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1298575.kFdmfUKbDy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611021612.01023.thomas.kear@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 16ed3daf-4726-48a9-8f43-3e5194062300 X-Archives-Hash: 4a9987c821ea4f39fc2873a30553fb59 --nextPart1298575.kFdmfUKbDy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 02 November 2006 2:27 pm, Grant wrote: > I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't > have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and > bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I > be researching both devices' Linux compatibility, or just the adapter? > > - Grant Well as already mentioned, just about any adapter should be fine. If you f= eel=20 like doing some research, find something with a Camridge Silicon Radio (CSR= )=20 chipset, they are the most common and consequently the best supported. As far as the headset goes, you should be fine. I use a Sony Ericsson=20 HBH-IV835 with my gentoo/amd64 pc without too many issues. The driver that= =20 couples the headset to an alsa audio device is at=20 http://bluetooth-alsa.sf.net As far as ebuilds go, they are in Liquidx's dev overlay (layman -a liquidx)= ,=20 called btsco and btsco-kernel. There is a marginally outdated but still=20 useful howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_a_bluetooth_headset Note: you will probably want to install bluez-libs and bluez-utils 2.25, 3.= 7=20 opens up a whole new set of problems with the dbus pin authentication, you= =20 really just don't want to go there. Your life will also be made a lot easi= er=20 if you install kdebluetooth or gnome-bluetooth to get a frontend for=20 configuration, device searches, file transfer (if you have a bluetooth phon= e=20 also), etc. =2D-Thomas --nextPart1298575.kFdmfUKbDy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFSWIA8/Qi7qeDfygRAulAAJ49d2wdL99ysgr0HMcJ1MY4F+66pwCeODFc QAM5V1T6fJcgQ3jY1YHfpsQ= =t9n5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1298575.kFdmfUKbDy-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list