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I own a Plantronics Voyager™ 510 Bluetooth^® Headset and I have been wanting to get it working on Linux for a quite sometime. I finally had some free time which utilizeded to get my headset working on Linux. The Bluetooth-alsa project provides support for Bluetooth headsets in Linux.

Requirements:

• Alsa support compiled either into the kernel or separately using the alsa-driver package.
• Make sure that you have snd_usb_audio module compiled.
• Bluetooth support has been compiled in the kernel.
  
  • Under the "Bluetooth subsystem support" make sure that you have chosen following:
    • "L2CAP protocol support"
    • "SCO links support"
    "RFCOMM protocol support", make sure you have selected "RFCOMM TTY support".
    
    • "BNEP protocol support", make sure you have selected "Multicast filter support" and "Protocol filter support".
      
    • "HIDP protocol support"
      
  • Under the "Bluetooth device drivers" make sure you have chosen following:
    • "HCI USB driver", make sure you have selected "SCO (voice) support"
    • "HCI UART support", make sure you have selected "UART (H4) protocol support", "BCSP protocol support", and "Transmit CRC with every BCSP packet"
  • Select the appropriateae Bluetooth device driver for your Bluetooth adapter.
• The bluez-libs and bluez-utils package have been installed and configured.

Installation:

Check out the btsco from CVS using the following commands

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa co btsco

Compile the userland application

./bootstrap
./configure
make install
make maintainer-clean

Compile the kernel module

cd kernel
make
make install
depmod -e
make clean

Now lets configure our headset so that we can test if our headset works.

• Insert the snd_bt_sco module with the command "modprobe snd_bt_sco", run "dmesg" to make sure that the module is loaded.
• Put the headset in pairing mode and then run "hcitool scan".
• Run the following command "btsco2 ", where is the address from the scan.

Now for testing run "xmms" and go to the preferences (Ctrl-P), click configure, and choose the BT device. Now load a song and play it to your headset.