ZTE phones as modems on Beaver - anyone try that?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 01:25:50PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 13:15, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> > It's never worked for me since. Now on a Moto G8 Power Lite, I just
> > plug into the USB and only use the Bluetooth for hands free use.
> 
> Yup. Audio is the only thing that seems to work reliably.
> 
> On Ubuntu about 5Y ago, I had to install a whole new Bluetooth stack
> to get a mouse working, and it wasn't reliable then.
> 
> A colleague of mine at SUSE found a set of steps to get Bluetooth
> audio working with openSUSE for all of our video meetings. It was
> astonishingly complex. I didn't even try, TBH.

I recently got some Bluetooth headphones.  I did get them working
eventually on Ubuntu 20.04, but I had to backport bluez and pulseaudio
from newer Ubuntu releases to do it.  (Though at least that suggests
that the process should be smoother on 22.04.)

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]