Re: OT: Bluetooth receiver/transmitter

[George N. White III]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 06:00, Bob Marcan  wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:59:06 +0100
> Paul Smith  wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:14 PM Samuel Sieb  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

10 years old, BT 2.1

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