On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, S Woodside wrote: > My suspicion is the support on PCs/laptops (aside from apple) is still > very limited, because microsoft didn't even put it into the OS toolkit > until just very recently (or is it soon? I can't remember). My > impression is that bluetooth "works" now but the apps are still > severely limited. The profiles are cool but for example, the apple API > only implements a tiny set of them. > > to me it seems like the early wifi days when apple rolled out airport
to call apple an early wireless adapter is either a stretch or you have a very short memory. I have lucent 802.11 cards that say 97 on them and 900mhz stuff that's way older than that. the karlnet code that the airport was based on had been a mature product for a long time before the airport was introduced... what was novel was the pricepoint for the base which of course didn't last long. > that worked because they controlled the hardware, the OS, and sold the > basestations. The others will be along eventually but right now it's > pretty spotty in terms of what it works with. > > I'd like to know what you find (esp on linux) > > simon > > On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 04:30 PM, Mark Harrison wrote: > > > Does anybody have experience with bluetooth yet? I just got a > > bluetooth phone (sony-ericsson t68i) and wanted to experiment > > with it. > > > --- > anti-spam: do not post this address publicly > www.simonwoodside.com -- 99% Devil, 1% Angel > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
