Bluetooth support

[Scott van Looy]

Today Konstantin Svist did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Today Ed Greshko did spake thusly:
>> 
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi and I have a Bluetooth device I wear in my ear and it talks to my
>>>> Cell Phone with no setup required. It's a LG cell phone and Motorola
>>>> Bluetooth but they work fine. I checked on this FC6 and it has at
>>>> System->preferances->More preferances a tag says Bluetooth but it is
>>>> nothing but a panel asking what it should do if it hears a transmitter.
>>>> Nothing poped up when I turned on my thing so I think it's not working.
>>> 
>>> Let's ask a very basic question.
>>> 
>>> What are you expecting to happen?  What is the goal?  Without knowing the
>>> goal, and without knowing what "thing" you are turning on it would seem 
>>> hard
>>> to determine what, if anything is wrong.  It may well be not 
>>> working....but
>>> what should it be doing....or what do you think it should be doing?
>>> 
>>> Usually, when I turn on my "thing" it works pretty good and all concerned
>>> are satisfied....or at least they say they are.
>> 
>> There's 2 classes of bluetooth devices, bluetooth audio wireless devices 
>> (hands free kits) are the latter class, which not all bluetooth dongles, 
>> etc support. Plus, for bluetooth to work in fedora you need the appropriate 
>> PC hardware
>> 
>
> I'm pretty sure we're talking about the wireless devices, not dongles.
> My bluetooth dongle (actuall built into my laptop) is recognized perfectly 
> well and works so far (transferring files to/from my cell phone).
>
> Let's concentrate on a single one for now: bluetooth headphones (though I'm 
> sure there are lots more devices that can be improved). Another closely 
> related device is a bluetooth headset (headphone & microphone - the BT device 
> you would use with your cell phone)
> It's easy to connect the headphones to FC6, but nothing happens after that. 
> I'd like to be able to actually hear music through them.

What I'm trying to say is that bluetooth headphones, bluetooth file 
transfer, etc are a different bluetooth class to bluetooth headsets, 
frinstance I can get bluetooth headphones to work with my Palm TX, but 
headsets don't, this is due to them using a newer version of the bluetooth 
standard (supports "headset profile" or A2DP). Most phones support it, 
obviously, but not all computers do.

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