On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:33:36 -0800 Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo:
>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> writes: > >Daniel> I've never gotten bluetooth to work reliably with my thinkpad. > >I've had bluetooth working on my T42, but I haven't used it for a >couple years. > >Bluetooth comes it two grades, class1 and class2. Class 1 is designed >for 100m, Class 2 is designed for 10m. Also, bluetooth uses 2.4GHz, >same as wifi, so it's natural to expect some interference. There's also a class 3, although I've never heard of any devices that use it because it is so low power. Most devices these days are class 2, although my neighbor's new HP printer must be class 1 because it is presenting a strong signal to my Thinkpad which is at least 20m away. I didn't see where Mike mentioned what model Thinkpad he has. But at least I can say that Bluetooth on my T61 has always worked well, although getting different distros to get it working has sometimes been an issue. And, once I get the required modules working I never have a problem with the connection. Ditto for wifi, and I often have both working at the same time without issue. I have no idea where the module is located, though. During a recent voyage through various distros the only one which had issues was Debian Squeeze. After a week I never did get bluetooth working, although I didn't spend much time on it. I had other more serious issues with Squeeze that eventually caused me to abandon it. Bluetooth "just worked" when I installed OpenSuse 11.1 and 11.2, and Fedora 11 and 12. I bought my first bluetooth device (a mouse) back in my Ubuntu days when the latest and greatest was Gutsy. I had issues getting it working, but eventually I discovered a utility called Blueman that was not in the repos. When I installed it Blueman installed a list of dependencies, and uninstalled quite a few bluetooth packages that Ubuntu came with. Blueman worked well and I was happy with it. When I left Ubuntu I was at Jaunty. I never installed Blueman on Jaunty because by the time of Jaunty the Ubuntu developers had gotten bluetooth working reasonably well without it. I should add that when Intrepid was released it came with a major rewrite of a lot of bluetooth utilities and modules. I did have an occasional problem with my mouse disconnecting under Intrepid and Jaunty, but it was easy to reconnect when it happened, which was about once a week. When I installed Fedora 11 I noticed that it came with Blueman. And I have to say that bluetooth is working better for me on Fedora 11 than it ever did on any version of Ubuntu. For example, I bought a pair of audiophile headphones when I had Hardy and they worked well, but after the upgrade to Intrepid they quit working and I could never get a peep out of them. With Fedora 11 they work perfectly again. So does my phone. As a not very scientific effort at troubleshooting, here is a partial list of packages that I have installed. I obtained this list just by searching in Yumex on "bluetooth": blueman, bluez, bluez-alsa (both 32- and 64-bit), bluez-cups, bluez-gnome, bluez-gnome-analyzer, bluez-gstreamer (both 32- and 64-bit), bluez-hcidump, bluez-libs, bluez-libs-devel (both 32- and 64-bit), gnome-bluetooth, gnome-bluetooth-libs (both 32- and 64-bit), gnome-bluetooth-libs-devel (both 32- and 64-bit), gnome-user-share, gnome-vfs2-obexftp, gvfs-obexftp, kde-bluetooth, libbctl (both 32- and 64-bit), obex-data-server, obexd, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, rfkill. Perhaps looking through the above list will help Mike find a missing package that will get his bluetooth working. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
