From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 20:16:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52BC31065673 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from plunky@rya-online.net) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07788FC1F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B07DEB9D; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:16:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9zPvHvjJCgx2; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:29:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from galant.ukfsn.org (unknown [109.249.255.164]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7417DEB33; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:16:51 +0100 (BST) Received: by galant.ukfsn.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B796B26009D; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:17:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:17:02 +0100 (BST) From: Iain Hibbert To: Raoul In-Reply-To: <20111005120903.4E78DA6414@smtp3-g21.free.fr> Message-ID: References: <20111005120903.4E78DA6414@smtp3-g21.free.fr> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (NEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bluetooth kbd on intel mac mini hardware 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: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:16:57 -0000 On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Raoul wrote: > > I don't know about intel mac mini hardware, but it sounds as if the normal > > state is that the Bluetooth controller operates in what is known as HID > > mode, in that it is pre-paired with the keyboard (or, just finds one to > > talk to with no pairing) and presents to the host OS as a USB device, so > > they don't need to do anything about Bluetooth. > > may be, but then why two usb devices are detached! > i have not the box with me, but next time, i will see with usbconfig. I don't know about that > > But, what has happened is that the device is now in Bluetooth mode, where > > it presents as a full Bluetooth controller and expects the host OS to > > handle the connection stuff. > > > The logfile seems to show that the keyboard has connected and is sending > > data which the OS does not understand, as you do not have bthid running > > (or indeed, perhaps not even enabled the ubt device or paired) > isn't bthid compiled in generic by default? > i think it is. my kernel is generic. sorry my bad, I mean bthidd (which is a daemon, handles Bluetooth HID connections and feeds the events back to the kernel) iain