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Re: [LUG] GNU/Linux on iPAQ

 

usb bluetooth dongle and sad to say a laptop with winxp on for
university, usb dongle is the more expensive type with up to 150m range
as a cheap 10m range worked but would not do voice and sound on a linux
box.

Hope this helps


On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 19:14 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2005 4:09 pm, Darren Ward wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:40 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > Anyone know how to share a LAN connection over bluetooth?
> > >
> > > :-)
> >
> > try http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN
> >
> > have this working on gentoo 64 and suse
> 
> Thanks, but which devices do you use?
> 
> I'll look at that later - for now I'm happy to have TCP/IP via USB. I still 
> don't trust wireless connections!
> 
> It still needs to have quite a bit of setup on the PC, it's not something I 
> could expect enabled elsewhere unless I took my own laptop at which point I 
> might as well connect via the laptop.
> 
> TCP/IP does seem easier for a portable device - Familiar supports DHCP and 
> even using the preferred static IP, it's not hard to change the network 
> details to fit in with an existing network - providing the network already 
> has provision for masquerading and a usable subnet. Persuading someone to 
> change some network settings is easier than asking them to setup one machine 
> as a bluetooth host.
> 
-- 
Darren Ward <tecknow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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