On Monday 22 Mar 2010 09:14:01 Stan Goodman wrote:
I bought a Bluetooth dongle today, hoping to be able to use it on my notebook machine. When it didn't work as expected, I googled for pertinent information, and quickly found a page at http://en.opensuse.org/Bluetooth#openSUSE_11.1, which seemed to be just what the doctor ordered. It's suggestions for fixing what it indicates is a known bug failed, producing no improvement in the Bluetooth problem, and also causing the Bluetooth applet to disappear from the Panel and the Network Manager to fail. I lost hope when I encountered the following sentence:
"If you are having issues with kde's Bluetooth front ends on 11.1 try installing gnome-Bluetooth and bluez-gnome, and running Bluetooth-applet. This does not work, but it gives you something to occupy your time. Or, go back to 10.3."
I refrain for commenting on the attitude betrayed by the page, but I, for one, have plenty to do without spending my time on proposed "solutions" that are guaranteed up front not to work. I think the time has come has come to ask if anybody has got Bluetooth to work on v11.1, and if so, what did they do to accomplish this?
What I wrote qualifies as a flame, and I have to apologize for it.
What it means is that the headset and the adapter that I bought are now junk, which was more than a disappointment. I would cheerfully move ahead to 11.2, if that didn't mean putting up with kde4, which is too great a price to pay. All that said, I continue to believe that it was a mistake and worse to abandon what was kde, and foist a radically different desktop on users.
Hi Stan, I bought a tiny little usb bluetooth device from Staples here in the UK. When I plug it in I get the following messages: Mar 22 20:43:46 linux-box kernel: usb 4-4.3: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp Mar 22 20:43:46 linux-box kernel: usb 4-4.3: SerialNumber: 00123456789 ... Mar 22 20:43:47 linux-box bluetoothd[3107]: Adapter /org/bluez/3107/hci0 has been enabled Then I upgraded to kbluetooth-0.4.2-7.2 which gives more functionality than I had with 0.3 something. BEWARE When installing this it dragged down a large array of dependant packages from the online repositories and upgraded KDE from 4.3 (I think!) (whatever comes as default version on the 11.1 DVD) up to 4.4.1. Since then my sound is not working properly. Something to do with pulseaudio and/or phonon. Haven't had time to properly investigate. Bluetooth works a treat though. :-) I can now send and receive files from my mobile phone So good points - Bluetooth Yay! and bad points - Non working sound - Bah! -- Kind Regards, Ritchie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ritchie Fraser Web: http://www.rpfraser.uklinux.net Registered Linux User #255860