Kubuntu 6.06 and Bluetooth
Rather then getting a new computer 余艾蕾 told me I get to use her old one. After some arm twisting, I convinced her that we don’t need it to duel boot, but she gave some conditions:
- We have to be able to upload photos from the camera phone.
- The Videos we have have to be able to play on the Linux box.
- Using the printer should be easy.
Requirment two is easy, the video’s are from the Canon PowerShot A75, no problem there. They have been burnt to a CD and all is swell. Requirment one was the issue of last night.
The Nokia has two methods to upload files, IR and Bluetooth. I booted Kubuntu’s desktop CD and it was running BlueZ, and KDE comes with a cute bluetooth tool, so I started working on that solution. I had never really done anything with bluetooth before, and was not really sure what it was, but I thought I’d try anyway.
I plugged in the the USB bluetooth adaptor we had and, blåt, error message. I don’t quite remember what the error was exactly, but it was something like “Nah! Nah! Nah! You need to keep a copy of Windows around. Dweeb! Get a life.” Well, it all worked out in the end, skipping the:
- Cussing.
- Cat abusing (filling Marvin’s water bowl up with ice).
- Anger because the KDE keyboard switcher has the same icon for the US keyboard as it has for Dvorak.
- Disdain of stupid user friendly KDE things (which are most like configurable, unlike Mac OS X).
- Wondering if there is a GUI way to use the IR port.
On an Ubuntu form some place I was pointed to http://www.bluez.org/download.html
and the bluez-firmware-1.2.tar.gz file and installed it. After restarting the BlueZ stuff, I plugged in the bluetooth adaptor and, bing, no error message. A little mucking around on the phone, and up came an image.
What is really cool, is that with the Kubuntu desktop CD I can do this without uninstalling the hard drive first. The bad part is I have to redo it after I figure out everything.
Tonight, the printer.
