[ltp] Tips on adding bluetooth to a T23?

[John Shane]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:37:46 +0000
Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> From my experience, it is much easier to set up bluetooth with a
> USB dongle. 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.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  

Thanks Timothy.  That's helpful, especially the commands.  PC card =
easier to leave installed and keep up with, USB dongle = easier to
set up.