Your phone, bluetooth, the internet and Linux
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OK, when you first look at this it appears to be a lot of work to get operating correctly. Well to be honest, I would say you are totally right. Still, it is comforting to know that we can at least have this option when wanting to send and receive files from your Bluetooth phone and your Linux box.
This small how-to will allow your phone to connect to the internet via Bluetooth and a Linux box and send/receive files between your phone and your PC. A number of packages and scripts will need to be installed and configured.
It will assume you’re using a USB Bluetooth dongle (though a PCI card might work following the same method - but not using hcid) and have Bluetooth support compiled into your kernel, you will need to have these option in your kernel config: [Read the rest]