by I am trying to get Bluetooth to play nicely with the combination of
Redhat Linux 8.0 and an Asus A7N266-VM motherboard. The Bluetooth device
is a Belkin model F8T001 Bluetooth USB adapter. The version of Redhat is
up-to-the-minute using kernel version 2.4.18-26.8.0 just installed
today. The Asus A7N266-VM runs BIOS version 1.005 and contains an AMD
Athlon XP 1700+, 2x256 Mbytes PC2100 DDR RAM, and a 40 Gbyte Seagate
Barracuda HD.
The symptoms seem to indicate something severly wrong with either the
USB or Bluetooth configurations. If I plug in the BT adapter while the
PC is running, the system freezes and requires a hard reset to clear it.
If the BT adapter is plugged in while the PC is booting, the boot
process halts after the point USB devices are initialized and prior to
the point where file systems are checked. A hard reset is required to
clear it.
Has anyone tried or succeeded at getting Bluetooth to function in a
similar setup? So far Google searches of newsgroups and web sites have
not turned up anything useful.