Rich Shepard wrote: > Ed and Galen introduced me to using my Treo 700p to access the 'Net from > my laptop via the VZ cellular network. I've bid on a USB bluetooth (2.0) > dongle on eBay; there are many there if I don't win this one. > > Finding information on how to use it is quite a challenge. There are no > bluez man pages and /usr/doc/bluez-4.99/ has instructions on building but > not using it. A Web search found nothing useful, particularly for Slackware, > or generally for linux. > > When I want to use the bluetooth headset with the phone I pair the two by > accessing bluetooth on the phone and pressing a 'pair' button while holding > down a button on the headset. They negotiate and agree to talk. What I need > to learn is how to connect the two from the laptop with the phone as there's > no button on the dongle. > > Pointers appreciated. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Rich,
I did an #>apropos bluez and got this: hciattach (1) - attach serial devices via UART HCI to BlueZ stack Then I did a man hciattach. Further investigation shows that this is for attaching a USB dongle to your laptop. Interesting. I learn a lot from your questions. Keep them coming. ;-) Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
