enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Tue Dec 21 00:29:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:32 -0600 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:

> On 12/20/2010 03:46 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naivete of the question. I
> > was wondering if there is an easy way to enable Bluetooth in F14. I
> > have a Thinkpad T61 and a Dell Latitude 5400 laptop apiece, and my hope
> > is to use the Bluetooth to use my GPRS phone as well as wireless mobile
> > while I am traveling. The providers do not seem to be excited about
> > Linux support.
> 
> If you had a bluetooth dongle or something in your system when you
> installed, it should already be enabled.  If you're using Gnome, look in
> the right third of the top menu bar and you should see a bluetooth
> symbol.  Right click on it and you can set things up.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks, Rick. I have been using LXDE: any suggestions on that? I will
also post this to the LXDE Fedora mailing list to see if someone there
has suggestions.

Many thanks again and best wishes,
Ranjan


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