On 2020-07-18 03:59, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:14 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I would like to buy a cheap Bluetooth receiver/transmitter for my >>> desktop computer running Fedora 32. I have searched eBay for that, but >>> meanwhile learned that most of them do not work on Linux. So, could >>> you please advise me on that? >> Where did you see that most don't work? I think it's the opposite. As >> far as I know, they all work. It's USB wifi devices that you're more >> likely to have trouble with (at least 5GHz ones). I recently needed a >> bluetooth dongle for BLE and picked one of the cheaper ones I could find >> and it just worked. > Thanks, Samuel and George. I found issues of compatibility with Linux at: > > https://www.thetechlounge.com/best-bluetooth-adapter/ > > Meanwhile, I bought the following Bluetooth dongle, which was very > cheap and therefore the risk is low: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/143581114516 Well, I was like Samuel and thought that all BT dongles work fine under Linux. However, I just bought one to replace a failed device. It is a newer model which is marked CSR 5 in support of BT version 5. It fails to be recognized by bluez as adapter. btmon shows... > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 6 #62 [hci0] 12.841706 Delete Stored Link Key (0x03|0x0012) ncmd 1 Status: Unsupported Feature or Parameter Value (0x11) Num keys: 0 So, I would stay away from Version 5 products for the time being. Side note: The bluez maintainers didn't respond to my query about support for this adapter. :-( -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
