From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 18:00:52 2005 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 40F4816A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:00:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from ismybrain.com (ismybrain.com [64.246.42.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5C643D48 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:00:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from [10.254.186.111] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ismybrain.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j9HI0kJ21863; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:00:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4353E6CC.2000705@savvis.net> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:00:44 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Pilgrim References: <001301c5d341$78adfad0$652a15ac@smiley> In-Reply-To: <001301c5d341$78adfad0$652a15ac@smiley> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth management software? 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: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:00:52 -0000 Darren, > Now that Bluetooth is edging itself into production with the talk of merging > the related scripts into /etc, I'm wondering if the user side of things has > come along as well? probably not as one would hope. > When I got my mouse, phone and PDA working with FreeBSD, it took > considerable work: looking at communications, grabbing IDs, manually editing > files, etc. well, yes, i agree. things could be better. > But in certain other OSen, Bluetooth is managed with an app capable of > configuring services, searching for and adding new devices. Does such > user-land software exist in FreeBSD? Preferably a CLI with an optional X > front end? i not really sure what are you talking about here. it is true - there is no user gui interface, but cli tools are there. 1) configuring services: if you mean configure services on freebsd side then its up to the application providing service to configure it. for example rfcomm_pppd(8) or obexapp(1) from ports will register services with local sdpd(8). all you need to do is to make sure sdpd(8) is running and when you start rfcomm_pppd(8) or obexapp(1) they will register LAN or OPUSH service with sdpd(8). 2) searching for devices: hccontrol inquiry 3) searching for services: sdpcontrol(8) cli or libsdp(3) application interface 4) i'm not sure what do you mean by "adding new devices". i know in windows you will have a separate com port if you want to use "serial port" service, but freebsd you do not need to. in freebsd you will use pty(4). thanks, max