After the disappointing escapade with IrDA, the ThinkPad, Ubuntu, and
the new phone, I had little hope of bluetooth working – how wrong I
was!
I plugged in the little D-Link dongle, and it was immediately
detected. A quick google suggested I install bluez-utils and
gnome-bluetooth, and after running gnome-obex-server we had some 6
phones and laptops all buzzing around the sub ether in the lounge
room. Exciting stuff! (gnome-obex-send and
gnome-bluetooth-manager suck a bit to use, and I’d like to be able
to browse the contents of the phone over -manager, but I’m still impressed
that it just worked).
I got a fresh screengrab of
glsnake to use as the wallpaper
on the phone and beamed it up, it’s sweet as.
Ed Dumbill also has a phone manager
application, install it as
gnome-phone-manager – it speaks IrDA and bluetooth, and I was able
to send an SMS from the laptop, totally rad.