I have a custom built computer with i7 chip, 8gb ram and 1tb disk. I use Debian 10.1 and blueman is installed. I have an old Dell 9 monitor. I am acquiring a Dell laptop to use with zoom as the Dell monitor has neither camera nor microphone.. Presumably I will need to hook it up to my desktop. Can I do this with blueman or do I need other bits and pieces.

My router came from my service provider and I don't know what make it is as it only has the ISP name on it. Its internet address is 192.168.1.254

Regards

Alaric

Let me make sure I understand. You want to run Zoom on your custom-built computer using the camera and microphone on the Dell laptop.

Is that what you are asking about? (If so, why not just use Zoom on the laptop?)

Also, 192.168.1.254 may be the internal address of your router, but it certainly is not the public-facing address. And it's probably not wise to publish your public-facing address. Doing so would just be asking for an external port scan.

Sorry, no. I bought the laptop to run Zoom as my desktop doesn't handle it at all. I want to use the internet connection to the desktop on the laptop. It's second hand. It hasn't been delivered yet and I don't know how old it is or what else it has on it.. It runs on i5 and according to the specs in the dealer's website it has a camera and microphone. Windows 10 is installed on it. I don't know anything about laptops as I have never used anything but desktops.

I have used Linux for about thirty years. I had a dual boot system because I had to do desktop publishing but now that Linux has a desktop publisher I haven't had Windows. I dislike it. I started with CPM and moved to Dos when I had to. Dos was a much more powerful system than Windows and much easier to use.

Thanks for the info about the router. I don't know the public facing address nor how to find it and I won't publish it if I do find it.

Regards

Alaric

I prefer a laptop for using zoom so I can move it around but you can always add a USB webcam with microphone or use a separate headset/microphone to your existing desktop. Otherwise I would not know why your desktop would not handle it since zoom supports debian.

Unless the Dell is really old I would assume it has a built in wireless adapter. Many of the Dell laptops use broadcom chip sets which can make installing the wireless driver with linux a pain unless you are going to keep Windows 10.

I would also assume the router has built in wireless so no need for connection sharing or the need to use bluetooth since you can easily connect the two computers together over your network.

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Thanks. I night try to install Linux on the laptop but as I will only be using it for Zoom I probably won't. The laptop has Open Office so I might try to hook them up. The desktop has Libre Office but they can talk to one another.

Thankd for your help

Alaric

Thanks for the clarification.

If the laptop has Win10, it is probably fairly up to date. I suspect that Zoom will work quite acceptably on it.

I've used Zoom on my Android devices. It works quite nicely on Android.

I also understand that Zoom is actively working on its security issues.

Why not just allow the laptop to connect directly to your router?

Otherwise, you might try a web search for share internet connection via bluetooth.