[ltp] Re: Tips on adding bluetooth to a T23?

[John Sullivan]

John Shane <jslists@mtwafrica.org> writes:

> Running Xubuntu on a T23.  Anyone have advice on adding bluetooth
> capabilities to a T23? I would like to sync my Palm via bluetooth if
> I can, as well as use a bluetooth mouse.  I see that there
> are USB dongles and PCMCIA cards as well as internal cards that can be
> used. It looks like using an internal card would require shuffling
> the present NIC and wireless cards, if it would even work, and mean
> giving up the internal modem. A PC card seems like the way to go
> instead of keeping track of a USB dongle but don't have any idea of
> the comparative power usage or how well one functions compared to
> the other.  Anyone have good experience with a particular bluetooth
> card in a ThinkPad with Linux?

I use the cheap Zoom bluetooth card, and it works pretty well. However, the
range seems to be vastly inferior to the Linksys USB dongle that I have also
used. Fortunately range doesn't much matter to me, since my primary use for
bluetooth is to transfer things back and forth from my Nokia E61 or to use it
as a modem, and in both cases, the phone is usually in my pocket.

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