[Coco] CoCo Wireless RS-232 Pak

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:03:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Roger Taylor wrote:
>> >Just a note to those who asked, the pak can be ordered now.  There's
>> >no fancy ad or graphics but enough info is there to give you an idea
>> >of what the pak does.  Besides pretending to be a Tandy Deluxe RS-232
>> >Pak, it's also wireless.  :)  Any PC with a bluetooth connection can
>> >see the CoCo and connect to it, and the rest is practically
>> >transparent to the CoCo.  No extra software is needed.  Your
>> >bluetooth equipped PC is ready to go.  Load your favorite RS-232 Pak
>> >compatible software on your CoCo.
>> >
>> >It works on all CoCo systems.  Let me know if you have any other
>> >questions and I'll be glad to answer.
>>
>> 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'm of the impression that there really aren't that many
>bluetooth device variations out there "in the wild".  FWIW all the
>bluetooth-equipped laptops I have on-hand ATM (I get a lot of them
>through work) have bluetooth working out of the box with Fedora.
>
>Since I know you tend to be up-to-date with kernel revisions I would
>guess that you would be fine with about anything you'd buy.
>
>One downside is that setting-up rfcomm (i.e. serial-over-bluetooth)
>still requires a little jiggery-pokery on Linux.  I guess it isn't
>commonly needed enough to have justified a point-n-drool interface. :-)
>If you need help with that once you get the card, feel free to contact
>me off-line.
>
>John

Thanks for the offer John, I'll do that when I have the hardware in hand.

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