Why must hardware be so annoying?
I blame the engineers. Why? Because they’re there.
I’ve been trying for a while now to get my Rocketfish Bluetooth dongle to work in Linux so I can pair my phone and Bluetooth headset with my laptop to do useful wireless things. Unfortunately, despite a few claims of “just works” my dongle has yet to register as a Bluetooth device. Currently it registers as a mouse, keyboard and hub. Why? I haven’t a clue, and ye olde Google turns up no help.
The thing works in Windows, mainly because it comes with a CD that has Windows drivers on it. I’m wondering if this is a hardware issue at this point because there are a few other dongle success stories on the Internet with plug-n-play ease after the appropriate Bluetooth packages were installed. I am having no such luck.
Does anyone have a USB Bluetooth dongle I could borrow to see if it’s just a hardware incompatibility? I’d rather not gamble on another device only to encounter the same problem again.