Hi All,
Anyone have a favorite Fedora friendly blue tooth transceiver?
Does Star Tech make good ones?
Many thanks, -T
On 2/10/22 04:24, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Anyone have a favorite Fedora friendly blue tooth transceiver?
I don't have a favorite, but I also haven't found any that don't work. The most recent one I got was a couple of years ago for accessing BLE devices. I kind of randomly picked one and it worked perfectly. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32769561310.html is the one I got.
On 15/02/2022 03:50, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 2/10/22 04:24, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Anyone have a favorite Fedora friendly blue tooth transceiver?
I don't have a favorite, but I also haven't found any that don't work. The most recent one I got was a couple of years ago for accessing BLE devices. I kind of randomly picked one and it worked perfectly. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32769561310.html is the one I got.
The only time I found a dongle that didn't work was about, maybe, 2 years ago. The dongle was BT V5.0. It was listed as certified at bluetooth.com. I wrote a BZ at kernel.org and at some point it started working after a kernel update. I didn't investigate to find which kernel started to support the device.
I just buy locally here here in Taiwan. The one thing all my dongles have in common is that that use chips from Cambridge Silicon Radio. And they all work without trouble.
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On 2/14/22 14:34, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 15/02/2022 03:50, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 2/10/22 04:24, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Anyone have a favorite Fedora friendly blue tooth transceiver?
I don't have a favorite, but I also haven't found any that don't work. The most recent one I got was a couple of years ago for accessing BLE devices. I kind of randomly picked one and it worked perfectly. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32769561310.html is the one I got.
The only time I found a dongle that didn't work was about, maybe, 2 years ago. The dongle was BT V5.0. It was listed as certified at bluetooth.com. I wrote a BZ at kernel.org and at some point it started working after a kernel update. I didn't investigate to find which kernel started to support the device.
I just buy locally here here in Taiwan. The one thing all my dongles have in common is that that use chips from Cambridge Silicon Radio. And they all work without trouble.
Thank you guys!
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 15:50, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 2/10/22 04:24, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Anyone have a favorite Fedora friendly blue tooth transceiver?
I don't have a favorite, but I also haven't found any that don't work. The most recent one I got was a couple of years ago for accessing BLE devices. I kind of randomly picked one and it worked perfectly. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32769561310.html is the one I got.
Cheap devices often change their internals more often than their descriptions on web sites. I've had two identical appearing USB devices from one order that had very different internals.
I've had good experiences with devices from Plugable. Note that USB3 can create RF interference that affects BTLE, so it is best to use a USB2 port.
Newer laptops typically use a combined WiFi +bluetooth card. You might consider upgrading the internal card if it has and old bluetooth chip. There are lots of good wifi+BT cards pulled from name-brand laptops as large enterprises upgrade to wifi6 (anticipating a return to open plan elbows up workspaces) available these days.
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