[ale] Bluetooth Headset

[James P. Kinney III]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! 

So you didn't _like_ the anime porn?




On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 13:41 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Thanks for that information.  Here is what I did and read it to beware!
> 
> #1.  Went to Frys and bought a Vakoss TC-B712-UB BT adapter.
>      It was on sale for $9.99
> 
> #2.  FC6 saw it
> #3.  Started up vmware with Windoze XP
> #4.  Oh!  the driver disk they sent me was actually
>      blank.  Dug wrapper from trash can outside.  Went
>      to http://www.vakoss.com and found the driver (158M). Why are BT
>      packages so huge?  The driver page must be outsourced because it
>      is the only page with popups.  Guess what?  The first popup took
>      me to a Chinese porn site.  So a company outsources its download
>      area to a site that sends me porn popups.  Beware!
> #5.  I see 2 drivers v5 and V4.  Naturally I load V5 in Winders
> #6.  10 minutes later "Bluetooth License Check Failed"  WTF?
> #7.  Spend 30 minutes on Google
> #8.  Remove V5 and load V4.
> #9.  10 minutes later I sync Motorla H500 and I'm on EchoLink!
> #10. FC6 having issues go to Xubuntu 7.10
> #11. I can ping the headset but have not figured out how to get it
>      to connect
> 
> I'll follow your instructions.  I suppose BT support is in the infancy
> stages like I remember USB support years back.  I was expecting that the
> user friendly disti called Ubuntu may have had this figured out.  There
> must be a bit more work to be done and I'll use VIM to enable my
> devices :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:55 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Sat January 5 2008, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > Anyone use a headset under Linux?
> > 
> > not yet, but I might:)
> > I bought the dongle for my laptop, and I have a bluetooth headset..
> > 
> > I did a goodle search and found this:
> > 
> > http://www.linux.ie/articles/bluetoothheadset.php
> > 
> > looks like it can be done.
> > 
> 
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