Bluetooth woes (again)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 13:50 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <
> pocallaghan at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > I just wonder why my logs show repeated problems
> > loading the driver (going back months) but nevertheless the old
> > dongle
> > seemed to work until now.
> > 
> 
> If you have a USB dongle, then the devices using that dongle are not
> Bluetooth devices as far as your system is concerned, they are USB 
> devices, so they would not need or use the system's Bluetooth driver.
> The Bluetooth driver is only needed if your system has a hardware
> Bluetooth device in it and you are using that to connect your
> peripherals.

Then why do my BT devices (mouse, headphones, an external speaker
system) show up under the BT settings dialogue? OTOH the separate
wireless mouse/kb dongle I mentioned *is* a USB device as far as the
system is concerned, but that's another matter.

poc