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#1 2005-02-28 20:57:51
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Os News Bluetooth How-To
Once again Arch has made headlines on Os News. This times it's in the form of a how-to to get bluetooth working with Arch.
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#2 2005-03-01 00:11:17
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Re: Os News Bluetooth How-To
I've spent a lot of time playing around with Bluetooth in Arch but not as an access point. It's not too tricky, except I compiled all my own bluez packages rather than use the Arch ones...
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#3 2005-03-04 12:57:48
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Re: Os News Bluetooth How-To
Was there a particular reason you needed to compile your own? I'm planning to get Bluetooth running on my laptop shortly, so if you came across any gotchas, I'd be interested.
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#4 2005-03-05 02:39:01
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Re: Os News Bluetooth How-To
Not really no. I thought there was at the time but I've since learned from playing around:)
What were you planning on doing with it? Sync or file transfer or...? I'll tell ya KDE has some good bluetooth tools (no Arch packages though) I just personally don't like KDE so I keep going about it the hard way 
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#5 2005-03-08 06:51:36
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Re: Os News Bluetooth How-To
I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know if you have questions how to set BT up as an AP. 
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#6 2005-03-09 10:10:52
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Re: Os News Bluetooth How-To
What were you planning on doing with it?
Get on the net via a Bluetooth/GPRS phone. My laptop is dual-boot Arch and Debian, and I did this on the Debian side a good while ago, before I'd even heard of Arch. I'm gradually preparing for Arch to become my principal distro, and this is one of a few applications that I still have to transfer over.
KDE has some good bluetooth tools (no Arch packages though) I just personally don't like KDE
Me neither. I have used some of the Gnome Bluetooth stuff with XFCE4 on Debian, though.
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#7 2005-03-09 12:35:46
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Re: Os News Bluetooth How-To
The GNOME Bluetooth stuff will compile but doesn't integrate with Nautilus 2.10 yet, waiting for a new version. I've never tried to use the phone as a modem though.
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