penguinforce wrote: > Went hunting for a USB Bluetooth adapter at Computer Plaza today. I > spotted four or five of them, mostly no-name-brands. > > I'm a total newbie about Bluetooth in Linux, so I asked whether the > devices had Linux support. I had very low expectations of these > people. I know the stock answer is No, presumably because they don't > know and they don't want to deal with people returning unsupported items. > > At "Far East", usually my favorite store, three people told me their > dongle wouldn't work with Linux. I kept asking if _they_ had an > Internet connection, and finally they let me google the Brand/Model. > Didn't find anything quickly, so I gave up. > > Twenty shops later, a salesman at "Fujisoft" invited me to use their > PC, to google their Targus dongle. Bingo. I've got it running now > with Ubuntu 7.10 (plug-and-play), and I'm picking up my neighbor's > phone. The real reason for buying this gadget is a story for another > time.
I always take a note pad (pen and paper kind) with me. I do a lap writing down all the various part numbers that the shops have in stock, then I go down to the internet cafe in the atrium and blow 10dhs for an hour and a coke to do my research before I go and buy the winner (if there is one - try getting an Asus M2N32-WS motherboard!). I've bought most of my garb from "Far East" over the last 5 years, but they generally have little idea what's what. I took back a 750GB drive that was playing up the day after I bought it and their idea of a test was to plug it into a box and format it NTFS.. (Windows says it's ok!). It was one of three in a RAID-5 and was flaking out under load.. I had to argue (A lot) and stamp my feet quite a bit but I got it replaced. On the topic of Bluetooth, I've been quite lucky. Both my Vaio and Mac have fully supported Bluetooth dongles built in. Having gone Bluetooth for connection, shuffling files around and syncing with my phone I'd never go back to wires! Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
