This month's Linux Journal has an article about making your computer auto-lock when you leave your desk, and auto-unlock when you return, by sensing the leaving/returning of the bluetooth phone in your pocket. (You DO take your mobile phone with you....don't you??) We have a few jokesters around here that make this sound like a good idea.
But neither my desktop nor my laptop have built-in bluetooth, at least not anything Ubuntu 11.10 can find. Does anyone know of a good bluetooth dongle that works well with Linux? (and is fairly affordable?)
Kendric Beachey
Microcenter has some decent dongles for roughly $20 http://bit.ly/twte5Sdollars that work well. I haven't found one yet that didn't work with Either Fedora 14 (or newer) or Ubuntu 10.04 (or Newer). Bluetooth is pretty much standardized within Linux. However, the capabilities you're speaking of may not be present natively in all distros.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!
Peter
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kendric Beachey kendric.beachey@gmail.comwrote:
This month's Linux Journal has an article about making your computer auto-lock when you leave your desk, and auto-unlock when you return, by sensing the leaving/returning of the bluetooth phone in your pocket. (You DO take your mobile phone with you....don't you??) We have a few jokesters around here that make this sound like a good idea.
But neither my desktop nor my laptop have built-in bluetooth, at least not anything Ubuntu 11.10 can find. Does anyone know of a good bluetooth dongle that works well with Linux? (and is fairly affordable?)
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You should be able to get any generic Bluetooth dongle and have it work. There are only 2 or 3 possible chips in the dongles based on some reading I did a few years ago. Same goes for USB device controller chips.
I had a generic BT from some PC parts reseller site, that I got for $5-6 and Ubuntu recognized it immediately. This was about 2 years ago. I was plugging it in just to see if it would work. YMMV
Brian Kelsay
From: On Behalf Of Peter Cross Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Linux-friendly Bluetooth dongle?
Microcenter has some decent dongles for roughly $20http://bit.ly/twte5S dollars that work well. I haven't found one yet that didn't work with Either Fedora 14 (or newer) or Ubuntu 10.04 (or Newer). Bluetooth is pretty much standardized within Linux. However, the capabilities you're speaking of may not be present natively in all distros.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!
Peter On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kendric Beachey <kendric.beachey@gmail.commailto:kendric.beachey@gmail.com> wrote: This month's Linux Journal has an article about making your computer auto-lock when you leave your desk, and auto-unlock when you return, by sensing the leaving/returning of the bluetooth phone in your pocket. (You DO take your mobile phone with you....don't you??) We have a few jokesters around here that make this sound like a good idea.
But neither my desktop nor my laptop have built-in bluetooth, at least not anything Ubuntu 11.10 can find. Does anyone know of a good bluetooth dongle that works well with Linux? (and is fairly affordable?)
Kendric Beachey
-- Cheers!
Peter J. Cross San Antonio, TX
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