bluetooth phone (samsung) to laptop (ubuntu 6.06 lts)

problem: installing strange, unstable drivers for cheap, bluetooth dongle on windows, but phone getting full.

what im not doing: installing strange, unstable drivers for cheap, bluetooth dongle on windows


stick in the dongle, lsusb;

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

then dmesg to check if kernel modules are present and loading;

[17179599.760000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179599.760000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179599.816000] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
[17179599.816000] usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb

the above makes me happy! so, to the terminal;

sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

and add to the bottom;

hciconfig hci0 inqmode 0 (not sure if this is required but google told me, restart the machine)

hcitool scan gives me the phones mac and all seems good to go! pair from the phone (1234 by default) and i thought i was there! unfortunately i couldnt find 'applications > accessories > bluetooth file sharing', so a quick;

sudo apt-get install gnome-bluetooth

start it up and send to the home folder. class, linux does it again!