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Bluetooth Networking Support

Status

Introduction

This specification describes goals for Bluetooth support in the Breezy Badger release of Ubuntu.

Rationale

Bluetooth is finally emerging as a robust and widely supported local area communications technology, for short-distance wireless data transfer. Bluetooth is being used for communications with cellphones, cameras, headsets and microphones, PDA's and storage devices. Many of these are associated with mobile computer usage, and Ubuntu aims to be the best OS for the mobile professional, making slick bluetooth support essential.

Scope and Use Cases

We would like to cover the following use cases:

  1. Joe has bought a new GSM cellphone, which includes bluetooth networking
    • and a GPRS account. Using only GUI tools, with a minimum of clicks, he connects to the Internet from his Ubuntu laptop via his cellphone and bluetooth. Ubuntu handles the detection of the laptop, assignment of IP addresses to create point to point connection between phone and laptop, and the initialisation of network routes to the net via the phone.
  2. Sarah has a new bluetooth headset. With minimal effort she configures
    • her laptop to use that bluetooth headset for VoIP calls using Shtoom. She uses only GUI tools to setup the headset and activate it or disable it.
  3. Pete has bought a new Palm PDA, with bluetooth support. With minimal
    • effort and using only GUI tools he backs up all the data from his old USB Palm onto his laptop. He then restores that data onto the new Palm, using bluetooth wireless networking.
  4. Andy has purchased a new bluetooth wireless mouse. With only two clicks
    • he enables the use of the mouse in Ubuntu.

Implementation Plan

Data Preservation and Migration

Packages Affected

User Interface Requirements

Outstanding Issues

UDU BOF Agenda

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