Hi Has anyone successfully used a usb bluetooth dongle with Ubuntu 7.10. I can get it to pair with my mobile phone on the laptop, but when i try to send a photo from phone to laptop, the phone does not detect the laptop.Made both phone and laptop visible but still no connection. I must be doing something wrong but what? Not to clued up with blue tooth! All suggestions gratefully received. Barry
Barrys linux mail bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone successfully used a usb bluetooth dongle with Ubuntu 7.10. I can get it to pair with my mobile phone on the laptop, but when i try to send a photo from phone to laptop, the phone does not detect the laptop.Made both phone and laptop visible but still no connection. I must be doing something wrong but what?
What are you running on the laptop to recieve the photo? I use sobexsrv -s 2 -I -r /tmp/phone http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/sobexsrv.php
I'm going to put a news/notes page about bluetooth on my website today.
Hope that helps,
MJ Ray wrote:
Barrys linux mail bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone successfully used a usb bluetooth dongle with Ubuntu 7.10. I can get it to pair with my mobile phone on the laptop, but when i try to send a photo from phone to laptop, the phone does not detect the laptop.Made both phone and laptop visible but still no connection. I must be doing something wrong but what?
What are you running on the laptop to recieve the photo? I use sobexsrv -s 2 -I -r /tmp/phone http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/sobexsrv.php
I'm going to put a news/notes page about bluetooth on my website today.
Hope that helps,
Ooooops Thought i only had to send picture from phone to laptop, did not know i needed a bit of software too. I need something easy to use and install and will work with a Samsung D 500. The software that came with the phone is windows only. any idea's? The one you quoted looked to technical for me. Cheers Barry
Ooooops Thought i only had to send picture from phone to laptop, did not know i needed a bit of software too. I need something easy to use and install and will work with a Samsung D 500. The software that came with the phone is windows only. any idea's? The one you quoted looked to technical for me. Cheers Barry
Hi Barry,
http://thefunkcorner.blogspot.com/2007/12/bluetooth-ubuntu-710.html
I followed these instructions when I had trouble sending an mp3 from my laptop, to my phone via bluetooth.
Don't know why this kind of functionality isn't installed by default.
My blog post on the subject is http://sionide.net/2008/04/15/bluetooth-troubles/
--Simon
David Reynolds wrote:
On 23 Apr 2008, at 12:05 pm, Simon Elliott wrote:
Don't know why this kind of functionality isn't installed by default.
Because not everyone needs it? For the same reason not every package in the world is installed by default.
As far as I can tell, the default behaviour of Bluetooth on Ubuntu is to display a little Bluetooth icon in the notification area, which serves no other purpose than to notify me that I have Bluetooth hardware and to let me change a couple of useless settings.. By default it appears possible only to receive file transfers from another device, but not to send stuff. Why leave it out? If you've bothered to buy a bluetooth dongle then this is exactly the sort of functionality you do need!
-Si
Simon Elliott alug@sionide.net wrote:
As far as I can tell, the default behaviour of Bluetooth on Ubuntu is to display a little Bluetooth icon in the notification area, which serves no other purpose than to notify me that I have Bluetooth hardware and to let me change a couple of useless settings.. By default it appears possible only to receive file transfers from another device, but not to send stuff. Why leave it out? If you've bothered to buy a bluetooth dongle then this is exactly the sort of functionality you do need!
Why? You might be just sync'ing with the phone's PIM or you might be just using a bluetooth device as a network gateway or you might just be pulling files off it from the computer. Running an easy-to-use visible Bluetooth recipient is a (minor, limited-range) security risk. I use sobexsrv only because my phone is a bit old and not very cool and some stuff can only be copied off it by phone-triggered transfers.
That's not to excuse Ubuntu's cryptic error messages. It really ought to warn you that some needed software is not installed.
I don't really understand why GNOME and KDE have invented their own ways of doing this. Why can't they leave the computer-driven send and receive to openobex and the obexfs filesystem?
Puzzled,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:50:03PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I don't really understand why GNOME and KDE have invented their own ways of doing this. Why can't they leave the computer-driven send and receive to openobex and the obexfs filesystem?
The functionality in GNOME that does this is via openobex.
Adam
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:17:07PM +0100, David Reynolds wrote:
On 23 Apr 2008, at 12:05 pm, Simon Elliott wrote:
Don't know why this kind of functionality isn't installed by default.
Because not everyone needs it? For the same reason not every package in the world is installed by default.
There is an option to "send to bluetooth device" which if you read his blog post (as I find out in a similar manner) that just gives you a cryptic error message if you try and use it.
I'd say that behaviour is pretty broken. I'd expect that the option wasn't there if it won't work without additional software installed *or* it'd prompt you to install the needed bits of software if you use it, not just a cryptic error message.
Adam
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 13:51:37 Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:17:07PM +0100, David Reynolds wrote:
On 23 Apr 2008, at 12:05 pm, Simon Elliott wrote:
Don't know why this kind of functionality isn't installed by default.
Because not everyone needs it? For the same reason not every package in the world is installed by default.
There is an option to "send to bluetooth device" which if you read his blog post (as I find out in a similar manner) that just gives you a cryptic error message if you try and use it.
I'd say that behaviour is pretty broken.
/me hugs KDE ;-)
R.
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:59:21 Barrys linux mail wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
Barrys linux mail bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone successfully used a usb bluetooth dongle with Ubuntu 7.10. I can get it to pair with my mobile phone on the laptop, but when i try to send a photo from phone to laptop, the phone does not detect the laptop.Made both phone and laptop visible but still no connection. I must be doing something wrong but what?
What are you running on the laptop to recieve the photo? I use sobexsrv -s 2 -I -r /tmp/phone http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/sobexsrv.php
I'm going to put a news/notes page about bluetooth on my website today.
Hope that helps,
Ooooops Thought i only had to send picture from phone to laptop, did not know i needed a bit of software too. I need something easy to use and install and will work with a Samsung D 500. The software that came with the phone is windows only. any idea's? The one you quoted looked to technical for me.
If you use GNOME or KDE, they both have Bluetooth 'frameworks' built in:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeBluetooth http://bluetooth.kmobiletools.org/
I have experience of KDE's one and it always seems to work fine for me.
Cheers, Richard
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