Where's the bluetooth jargon demystifier?

[Bill Davidsen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:54:59 -0400
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> 
>> Did you run the --connect command after finding the device? (I assume 
>> so, but BT is magic)
> 
> When I was playing with bluetooth, I never once got --connect to
> work, the only thing that ever caused the keyboard to appear
> was doing a --search, then (before the search timed out) taking
> the back off the keyboard and pressing the connect button.
> 
> I have since gotten everything working with the USB dongle, and
> it functions perfectly. I never have to push any buttons on the
> keyboard or dongle (even if I reboot or move the dongle to a
> different computer), the USB interface lets the keyboard work
> in the BIOS screen and in grub, etc.
> 
> I have abandoned bluetooth till I happen to get something that
> only works in bluetooth mode and I am forced to try again :-).
> 
> Here's the tale of my keyboard:
> 
>    http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/mini.html
> 
Thank you for documenting, I would love to have BT speakers and printing 
working, the current setup really rots.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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