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Date:      Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:16:12 -0500
From:      Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>
To:        Maksim Yevmenkin <myevmenk@exodus.net>
Cc:        -net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bluetooth
Message-ID:  <3CFAB652-3AC8-11D7-8AC2-000393A335A2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E43F1C5.8060209@exodus.net>

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Maksim,

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:49 PM, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> Hello Larry,
>
>> I have a dlink usb-bluetooth adapter, which works great on my 
>> powerbook btw heh.  But I'd love to know if anyone has had any 
>> success with something like that on freebsd?  I have a bluetooth 
>> capable pda and i want to set it up to dial-in to the freebsd-box and 
>> get out to the internet.  Using my powerbook would turn off syncing 
>> while im dialed in..
>
> it might work. you need to do
>
> 1) find out USB vendor ID and device ID of your device
> 2) try to add these IDs to the list in ng_ubt.c under
>    /sys/netgraph/bluetooth/drivers/ubt/
> 3) rebuild and reinstall your kernel
> 3) and attach your USB device and see what happens
>
>> I have seen some stuff on 5.0 about it, but can anyone let me know if 
>> it is realistically useable?
>
> sure. i'm using it all the time. the problem is that all userland
> stuff still not connected to the build. you will need to build
> it manually. is is located under /usr/src/usr.{s}bin/bluetooth.
>
> you also will need to download, build and install ports that
> implements SDP and RFCOMM.
>
>


I will try this and let you know.  thanks for the info

--Larry


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