Bluetooth

The original bluetooth stack doesn't work with my little cambridge dongle; but blueman does.

--EDIT: THAT DOESN'T CUT IT EITHER--

$ lsusb|grep Blue
ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

$ lsmod|grep btusb
btusb                  10276  2 
bluetooth              46960  9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
usbcore               125852  6 btusb,stk11xx,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Now, that's upon plugging the device in - but no device was reported by bluetooth-applet, the original gnome one.

You need to install, acknowledging uninstallation of conflicting stuff:

obex-data-server
blueman
bluez-gnome
bluez-utils
libbluetooth2
gnome-vfs-obexftp
libgnome-bluetooth7

and maybe

bluetooth
bluez
pyhton-bluez
libbluetooth3

Removing

gnome-user-share
gnome-bluetooth 
obexd-server

Of course, you may have an entirely different chipset, that works with the original stack; or, blueman may be the new stack, and the other one will disappear... More likely, blueman is the former one, and when gnome-bluetooth is deemed ready, it will still not work on my computer but blueman will stop being available.

Nevertheless, that's what works here on the Debian Testing Asus laptop. For file transfer, that is; forget about modem connection.

--EDIT: AS EXPECTED, THE NEW STACK IS THE ONE THAT DOESN'T WORK--