[plug] bluetooth camera phone

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 10/16/06, Shayne O'Neill <shayneo at bestflights.com.au> wrote:
>
> Axis did most of the heavy lifting for Bluetooth support iirc. (I know
> this, because I was developing for etrax processors and sat on a verry
> heavy kernel dev list for 2 years with these guys). Short answer is
> linux did bluetooth before microsoft did . Long answer is: No idea if
> bluetooth support is still like pulling teeth.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Michael Holland
> Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2006 8:32 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] bluetooth camera phone
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Gavin Chester wrote:
>
> > Thanks that was the sort of reassurance I was looking for in my
> > ignorance of bluetooth phones.  Trouble is, I think I just found out
> > that she doesn't even have a bluetooth dongle/receiver/thingy in her
>
> Just get a cheapie from Hong Kong off e-Bay, and plug it in. $12 is the
> going rate. Cheap as chips, ha ha.  Less than a usb cable from the local
> shop. AFAIK, they all work with Linux. Anyone found otherwise??
>

I've thrown in a few USB-bluetooth dongles over the past few months
and all "just worked". I'd say you'll be okay.

Tomasz