Hi Stephen I have the same what appears to be the same dongle that I bought from JayCar (part: "Tiny Bluetooth Adaptor CAT. NO. XC4892") which incidently was a lot dearer than your TradeMe deal
My "lspci" is: Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) I use it to download a Holux M-241 GPS datalogger on my EeePC 900 netbook and on Crunchbang and Ubuntu Intrepid it works perfectly. (I use gpsbabel) It pairs perfectly etc. as you describe on Jaunty but refuses to work and will not download any data It appears to be a bug in the later versions of bluetooth and there are bugs logged against that I'm not that tech but some of the googling referred with problems in the updated bluetooth stack in Jaunty I have spent ages googling and checking forums and as yet have not found a fix as yet but it is recognised etc. and pairs etc. as you have described In the meantime I am not updating to Jaunty on my netbook the netbook because of this problem and would suggest you try Interpid and see how you go cheers............dave 2009/6/18 chris <[email protected]> > hi Stephen, > i notice that bug was for the alpha6 ver of jaunty. > i am to assume form your post that it is still present in jaunty then? > > Cheers chris > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 13:06 +1200, Stephen Irons wrote: > > chris wrote: > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > > >> > > > I have Bluetooth on my laptop, and under Ubuntu 9.04 have no issues. > > > Could it be a version problem? > > > > > > Cheers Chris T > > > > > > > > > > I also use 9.04. I based my observation on four things: > > > > * I could not send a file from the phone to the PC > > * My phone reports the PC's bluetooth services as 'network'. > > Bluetooth devices that I can send files to include the service > > name 'transfer'. I have tried deleting the PC device from the > > phone and making it rediscover. > > * Bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/349330 describes > > my problem, and says that the solution is to install > > 'gnome-user-share' > > * I do not have 'gnome-user-share installed' > > > > I have installed 'gnome-user-share'. A new configuration menu item > > appears: System > Preferences > Personal File Sharing. After enabling > > 'Receive Files over Bluetooth', it works as expected. My phone now > > reports the PC's bluetooth services as 'network; capture; transfer'. I > > think 'capture' means that the phone thinks that the PC can act as a > > camera or scanner, but my bluetooth knowledge is a bit rusty. > > > > I then uninstalled 'gnome-user-share', purely because it offends my > > sensibilities to have to install a web server for my computer to receive > > files over Bluetooth. > > > > Perhaps you already have 'gnome-user-share' installed? Or perhaps KDE > > does something different? > > > > Also there used to be a package called something like > > 'gnome-obex-server' that provided a Bluetooth file receiving daemon, but > > it has disappear. I think that it was not part of Bluez, so it has been > > removed in a general Bluetooth brushing. > > > > Stephen Irons > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > > lost by reason of this transmission. > > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > > other act on the email. > > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > > altered or corrupted during transmission. > > ======================================================================= > > > >
