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

[John Shane]

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:59:58 -0500
John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> -John Sullivan

Do you leave the Zoom card in all the time and does it cause
any problems with suspending the laptop?  What sort of range do you
get with the card?  Thanks, John