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 feel like doing some research, find something with a Camridge Silicon Radio (CSR) 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 HBH-IV835 with my gentoo/amd64 pc without too many issues. The driver that couples the headset to an alsa audio device is at http://bluetooth-alsa.sf.net As far as ebuilds go, they are in Liquidx's dev overlay (layman -a liquidx), called btsco and btsco-kernel. There is a marginally outdated but still useful howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_a_bluetooth_headset Note: you will probably want to install bluez-libs and bluez-utils 2.25, 3.7 opens up a whole new set of problems with the dbus pin authentication, you really just don't want to go there. Your life will also be made a lot easier if you install kdebluetooth or gnome-bluetooth to get a frontend for configuration, device searches, file transfer (if you have a bluetooth phone also), etc. --Thomas
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