Asus Eee PC phone pairing woes
Posted: December 27th, 2007 | Author: john | Filed under: Handhelds | No Comments »One of the things I would like to use my Eee PC for is killing some time using IRC on my train commute. I already own a BT dongle which I used on my Sharp Zaurus. I also had bought a cheap Motorola phone for connecting with a Nokia 770. So in theory it should be straight forward to get everything connected and running on my new Eee PC. Turns out it was quite a bit more fiddley than I anticipated. In short the problem was pairing with my phone. What was required was the bluez-gnome package which provides the bluetooth-applet. This needs to be run before attempting pairing. You can then click on the applet on the Eee PC to complete the pairing process. I now have XChat running over my phone’s GPRS connection. This will give me something else to do on the train other than reading the free newspapers!
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