Posts Tagged bluetooth thinkpad t61 gentoo gnome bluez

I finally got bluetooth working last night and playing friendly with gnome. It was surprisingly simple once you have your kernel setup correctly for your bluetooth device. All what was needed was a simple merge:

% emerge -av bluez-gnome bluez-utils gnome-bluetooth Although gnome-bluetooth isn’t required, as bluez-gnome is the important package to emerge. bluez-gnome provides a handy applet that appears in the notification area allowing you to browse and send files to other bluetooth enabled devices. It’s fairly straight-forward. note: I did have to logout of gnome and back in after emerging bluez-gnome for the applet to appear in the notification area.