Hi,
I have it working in Intrepid 9.04 no problems, and have used it to
exchange files with 8.04, and my laptop which is intrepid.
All the hardware is HP if that helps
regards Chris Thimas
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:50 +1200, Dave G wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I bought one of the bluetooth dongles that Stephen referred to and
> after a bit more experimenting I can confirm that it appears to
> behave
> the same ( and has the same chipset as the dearer Jaycar model)
>
> The bad news is that despite quite a bit of experimentation I can not
> get it to
> transfer any data despite Jaunty recognising (and pairing?) to it
>
> It works fine in Intrepid and Crunchbang 8.10 however
>
> Has anyone else had more luck?
>
> cheers....dave
>
> 2009/6/20 Dave G <[email protected]>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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