Re: [Sheflug] Bluetooth on Linux

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 12:33 01/08/01 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Steve Tickle wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to get my hands on some hardware and a working stack. I'm
> > told there are some available for Linux but I'm also told that the AXIS
> > stack is fubar.
>
>The Axis stack is a nice idea, but I can think of nicer ways to do it.  The
>BlueZ stack is very much nicer, and uses sockets.  It is now (as of 2.4.6) a
>standard part of the kernel.
>
>I've also heard of the BlueDrekar stack from IBM, but I don't know much
>about it.
>
>Certainly, any of these options is tastier than the MS equivalent - the
>standard Ericsson stack is abysmal, and only supports USB (yuck).

We'll be distributing some Bluetooth products once they are fully launched. 
The manufacturers are writing their own stack but unfortunately, only for 
Windoze. It would be nice to have some experience in using Bluetooth with 
other OS's.

I have a SuSE 7.0 machine (kernel 2.2.16) not doing anything particularly 
useful at the moment. As I'm still very much a Linux novice, what would be 
involved in upgrading the kernel to 2.4.6? Would it be necessary/worthwhile 
in upgrading X etc too?


Steve


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