[Coco] CoCo Wireless RS-232 Pak

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 09:03 PM 2/24/2009, you wrote:
>>What sort of a usb<->bluetooth adapter would I need on this linux box,
>> given that the range is on the order of 20 feet, though the wooden floor
>> of this house?
>
>I'd have to Google up something about Linux w/bluetooth.  I'm sure
>the support is there.
>
>I'm certain that the range is 100+ feet for the pak itself.  I have
>two bluetooth dongles and the newest one (IOGear) claims 66 feet,
>while the 99 cent one I got from a Hong Kong powerseller claims 300
>feet.  If you run Windows Vista, you'll need a Vista-ready bluetooth
>dongle or just a bluetooth-equipped laptop.  The signal should pass
>through walls and floors fairly well.
>
>You should also be able to connect to the COM ports of PDAs, cell phones,
> etc.

For linux, I would probably need to know the chipset in it, so I'll have to 
buy one and plug it in, the look at dmesg, which should show the discovery 
phase when I plug it in & the kernel gets a notice something new has been 
connected.  Probably not a problem if the driver is available.

I just trolled thru the system includes and the kernel includes, and none of 
the bluetooth.h files have any specific chipset ID numbers.  I just went 
through the xconfig menu and turned all the bluetooth stuff on as modules, so 
the next time I build a kernel, it should all be there.  Theoretically, all I 
need to do it plug it in.  But Murphy has a room rented here, so...

Prices & order info is on your web page I assume?

Thanks Roger.

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