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Bluetooth on Linux Laptop

by Vijay Kiran

Finally I was able to configure the bluetooth transfer from my nokia 3230 to my Laptop via Bleutooth. My Laptop is loaded with Ubuntu Linux 5.04 and Windows XP Home Edition. Ubuntu hoary was able to detect my Laptop’s bluetooth chipset. Once I found the same on my devices list, I started to find out the packages required for bluetooth connection with my mobile phone.

It was not that hard to configure, except that the packages have to be downloaded from packages website. Here are the required packages:

  • libbtctl
  • libbluetooth
  • gnome-bluetooth
  • libobexserver
  • obexserver
  • bluez-pin
  • bluez-utils

Once all the packages are installed using dpkg command, I started gnome-bluetooth-manager and it successfully detected my mobile phone. I was able to send an Image from my phone to Laptop via bluetooth!
Also I tried connecting to Bluetooth modem, but I couldn’t do it. I confgured the ppp scripts and created the /dev/rfcomm0 to connect to my phone. The bluetooth connection was established successfully, but when I used ppp to connect to the internet, the chat script failed. I think this has to do with my AT commands to the modem. Phew, may be another day !

Here are some good links I found:
About GPRS, Bluetooth
Connecting to Nokia 6310i via Bluetooth
Another Link for GPRS – Bluetooth – Linux