[ltp] Tips on adding bluetooth to a T23?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 16:08, John Shane wrote:
> 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?

=46rom my experience, it is much easier to set up bluetooth with a USB dong=
le.
Stick in the dongle, say "service bluetooth restart" and "hciconfig -a"
and hopefully you will find your dongle has become active.
The Linux bluetooth program is called bluez.
Google for that and you should find instructions on how to use it.

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