On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:59:06 +0100 Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:14 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
I would like to buy a cheap Bluetooth receiver/transmitter for my desktop computer running Fedora 32. I have searched eBay for that, but meanwhile learned that most of them do not work on Linux. So, could you please advise me on that?
Where did you see that most don't work? I think it's the opposite. As far as I know, they all work. It's USB wifi devices that you're more likely to have trouble with (at least 5GHz ones). I recently needed a bluetooth dongle for BLE and picked one of the cheaper ones I could find and it just worked.
Thanks, Samuel and George. I found issues of compatibility with Linux at:
https://www.thetechlounge.com/best-bluetooth-adapter/
Meanwhile, I bought the following Bluetooth dongle, which was very cheap and therefore the risk is low:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143581114516
Paul
Belkin F8T017
2020-07-18T10:57:50+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3: new full-speed USB device number 19 using ehci-pci 2020-07-18T10:57:50+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=4500 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3: Product: BCM2046B1 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3: Manufacturer: Broadcom 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: hub 2-5.1.3:1.0: USB hub found 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: hub 2-5.1.3:1.0: 3 ports detected 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.1: new full-speed USB device number 20 using ehci-pci 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=4502 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: input: HID 0a5c:4502 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-5/2-5.1/2-5.1.3/2-5.1.3.1/2-5.1.3.1:1.0/0003:0A5C:4502.0005/input/input16 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: hid-generic 0003:0A5C:4502.0005: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [HID 0a5c:4502] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-5.1.3.1/input0 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.2: new full-speed USB device number 21 using ehci-pci 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=4503 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: input: HID 0a5c:4503 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-5/2-5.1/2-5.1.3/2-5.1.3.2/2-5.1.3.2:1.0/0003:0A5C:4503.0006/input/input17 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: hid-generic 0003:0A5C:4503.0006: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [HID 0a5c:4503] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-5.1.3.2/input0 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: new full-speed USB device number 22 using ehci-pci 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: New USB device found, idVendor=050d, idProduct=0017 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: Product: BLUETOOTH USB +EDR ADAPTER Class 1 v2.1 UHE 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.3: SerialNumber: 000A3A88235E 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan mtp-probe[16977]: checking bus 2, device 21: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-5/2-5.1/2-5.1.3/2-5.1.3.2" 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan mtp-probe[16978]: checking bus 2, device 20: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-5/2-5.1/2-5.1.3/2-5.1.3.1" 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan mtp-probe[16977]: bus: 2, device: 21 was not an MTP device 2020-07-18T10:57:51+0200 smicro.local.lan mtp-probe[16978]: bus: 2, device: 20 was not an MTP device 2020-07-18T10:57:52+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb 2020-07-18T10:57:52+0200 smicro.local.lan systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status... 2020-07-18T10:57:52+0200 smicro.local.lan kernel: usb 2-5.1.3.1: input irq status -75 received 2020-07-18T10:57:52+0200 smicro.local.lan systemd[1]: Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status.
BR, Bob