From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 23:39:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3099916A422 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:39:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0045D43D55 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:38:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from RabbitsDen ([70.21.195.141]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVS00B1X70SGDE8@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:38:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:38:43 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net> To: Maksim Yevmenkin Message-id: <1141774723.753.9.camel@RabbitsDen> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-5 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apple bluetooth keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:39:58 -0000 On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:24 -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Dear Bluetooth Users, > > i now own apple bluetooth keyboard. i had a minute to spare and tried > bthidd(8) and bthidcontrol(8) with the most recent changes by Markus > Brueffer. > 2) for whatever reason, right shift does not work. both left and right > ctrl, alt and left shift work as expected It works on mine (-CURRENT from February 13). Does it work for you at all (e.g. Mac OS, Windows)? > everything else seems to be working just fine. combination in Gnome does something odd -- window switch box disappears as soon as you release without releasing . I did not investigate it much further though. > another minor issue, which has nothing to do with, bthidd(8) or > bthidcontrol(8), is pairing procedure. it is not very user friendly, > because there is no indication as to when user should type pin code on > the keyboard. this can be addresses by teaching hcsecd(8) to use > external processes to obtain pin codes. hcsecd(8) could call external > process that will display dialog to the user and request pin code. I know it is ugly, but running hcidump and typing in PIN and Enter when you see PIN request going out and stalling did the trick ;) > now, when kbdmux(4) was fully integrated into -current and releng_6 it > should be much more easier to use bluetooth keyboards with freebsd. > thanks, > max Thank you very much for doing this work! -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)