Other Connectors

The Dell comes equiped with IRDA, bluetooth, USB, firewire IEEE1394.

Firewire

Works right out of the box. No need for any configuration or some such. Tested with an external hard disk

USB

Tested with a standard usb laptop mouse. Plug it in, done, you can use it.

IRDA

Not tested yet (and probably won’t get tested at all because the only IRDA device is my cellphone which I might sync with the laptop. But for this I also do have a standard serial cable that is way easier to use.)

Bluetooth

Using my new bluetooth capable cell phone bluetooth worked right out of the box. No need to do some extensive configuration. But make shure that the following packages are installed:

    bluez-utils
    bluez-pan
    bluez-pin
    bluez-libs
    bluez-hcidump
    bluez-sdp

A good tutorial is available here

For file transfer and handling of bluetooth devices I use the kde bluetooth framework which works quite well.