Microcenter has some decent dongles for roughly <a href="http://bit.ly/twte5S">$20</a> dollars that work well. I haven&#39;t found one yet that didn&#39;t work with Either Fedora 14 (or newer) or Ubuntu 10.04 (or Newer). Bluetooth is pretty much standardized within Linux. However, the capabilities you&#39;re speaking of may not be present natively in all distros. <br>
<br>Hope this helps. <br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kendric Beachey <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kendric.beachey@gmail.com">kendric.beachey@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This month&#39;s Linux Journal has an article about making your computer<br>
auto-lock when you leave your desk, and auto-unlock when you return,<br>
by sensing the leaving/returning of the bluetooth phone in your<br>
pocket.  (You DO take your mobile phone with you....don&#39;t you??)  We<br>
have a few jokesters around here that make this sound like a good<br>
idea.<br>
<br>
But neither my desktop nor my laptop have built-in bluetooth, at least<br>
not anything Ubuntu 11.10 can find.  Does anyone know of a good<br>
bluetooth dongle that works well with Linux?  (and is fairly<br>
affordable?)<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Kendric Beachey<br>
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