From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 20:05:30 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 79F6B16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:05:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from plunky@rya-online.net) Received: from mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E918743D45 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:05:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from plunky@rya-online.net) Received: (qmail 75827 messnum 7061714 invoked from network[83.70.176.191/unknown]); 7 Mar 2006 20:05:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rya-online.net) (83.70.176.191) by mail01.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 75827) with SMTP; 7 Mar 2006 20:05:27 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 3735 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:04:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:04:55 +0000 (GMT) To: Maksim Yevmenkin In-Reply-To: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net> References: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <1141761895.037384.5308.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org> From: Iain Hibbert 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 20:05:30 -0000 On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > 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. > > i'm very pleased to say that apple bluetooth keyboards almost works. in fact, > i'm typing this email using apple bluetooth keyboard. Max, this is excellent news because mine arrived friday and I am about to start working on HID support for NetBSD. Mostly this means porting bthidd and bthidcontrol though we have wscons/wsmux here which I hope means I can inject events already. > 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. How do bluez/linux manage this? I have seen mention of a 'bluepin' application but have no idea how it works.. iain