Bluetooth in Gnome

Ok, so after my rant the other day about making Bluetooth easy in Gnome, I decided to take a look at the situation for the first time in a while.

Yes, it’s been about 6 months or even a year since I last tried to set up bluetooth on Linux and now I have a new Dell XPS M1710 notebook with a built in bluetooth module. So I took a look in Synaptic, I’m running Feisty so maybe it’s easier these days. I installed bluez-gnome and gnome-bluetooth and was able to use my phone to set up a connection to my bluetooth module, enter a pin on my phone, was prompted by my laptop to insert the pin into the dialog box and bingo. I was able to send files to my phone using Nautilus’ Send-to dialog and send files to my notebook after starting the bluetooth daemon and opening Gnome-Bluetooth.

So, success, but it could be easier I guess but it’s not as hard as I remember. All I have to do now is work out how to use my phone as a modem and perhaps browse my phone over bluetooth.

Oh and work out how to get my internal modem to work, but that’s a job for another day.

The Freedom March

LUG Radio Live registrations are now open. Tickets are 5 GBP up front or on the door, 3 GBP if you can mail show @ lugradio . org with the lamest reason you can think of and free entry for international travellers with a valid airline ticket and exhibitors. If you want to be part of the exhibition, do a 5 minute Light Bulb Talk, or tale part in the hour of power, then mail show @ lugradio . org.

There are forty speakers on three stages, Birds of a feather sessions, an exhibition, Adam Sweet’s Gong-A-Thong Lighbulb Talk Extravaganza, the Mass Debate, The Hour of Power, a dedicated evening event and some of the coolest, friendliest bunch of people in the world. LUG Radio Live really is all about the people and the community around the event. You’d be missing out not to be there.

In another announcement, we are proud to announce the The Freedom March video.

Please go ahead and link to it. Details on the page for downloads and links.

See you there 🙂