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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2004 05:49:45 +0100
From:      Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Bluetooth
Message-ID:  <200403060549.46220.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040305033339.GA31830@alzatex.com>
References:  <20040305033339.GA31830@alzatex.com>

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> We will shortly be starting some development with bluetooth and I'm
> looking to setting up a workstation dedicated for that.  This
> workstation will also be used for palm os development since that is part of
> the same project so the workstation needs to be somewhat stable for
> that.  Is the bluetooth support in FreeBSD 5.x well developed?  The main
> protocols we need are RFCOMM and HID support.  I've heard some problems
> with FreeBSD 5.2 as far as stability, but are they mostly fixed in
> FreeBSD 5.2.1 or should I just go with Debian Linux for all of this.

FWIW I have successfully connected to the internet via GPRS over bluetooth 
with a Nokia 7650 and the built-in USB adapter in the IBM T40p. It seems to 
run stable (well except for the buggy-in-general phone). Dunno about HID 
though.

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/ Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB

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