On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 06:00, Bob Marcan <bob.marcan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:59:06 +0100
Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> Paul
Belkin F8T017
10 years old, BT 2.1
2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: new full-speed USB device number 22 using ehci-pci
2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: New USB device found, idVendor=050d, idProduct=0017
2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: Product: BLUETOOTH USB +EDR ADAPTER Class 1 v2.1 UHE
2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp
2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: SerialNumber: 000A3A88235E
George N. White III
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