Andrew Errington wrote:
On Wed, June 17, 2009 08:14, Stephen Irons wrote:
Some one on Trademe is selling little Bluetooth adapters for $10 + $2
postage [1]. It is the size of the tip of my thumb. Just right for plugging
into one of the USB holes of your netbook.
I bought one. Plugged it in. It Just Worked.
Up popped the little Bluetooth icon on my Gnome panel. Discovered my
phone. Paired and set as 'trusted'. Browsed files on phone from PC. Sent
file from PC to phone.
Bluetooth seems to have come a long way recently.
Unfortunately, I cannot yet send files from phone to PC. You need to
install 'gnome-user-share' which also brings in Apache (so that you can
share files using webdav). It is a known packaging problem, and I can't
bring myself to do it on my laptop.
Excellent! I did the same thing two years ago. I was using Mepis 6 on an
old ThinkPad. Mepis has KDE, and it too Just Worked. I had no trouble
dragging and dropping files either way with Konqueror. It surprises me
that Gnome makes a distinction between a file on a phone and any other
removable filestore. Perhaps you have overlooked soemthing?
A
Perhaps I was not quite clear: I can browse files on the phone from the
PC, and, as you say, it looks just like another directory.
The thing that does not work is to use the phone to initiate the
transfer of a file to the PC. By default, Ubuntu does not install a
Bluetooth receiving daemon. This comes as part of the package
'gnome-user-share', which also installs capabilities that I do not want.
Stephen Irons
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