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

2020-07-18T10:57:51+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