Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:05:33 -0800 (PST) From: Maksim Yevmenkin <m_evmenkin@yahoo.com> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>, freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth HID support Message-ID: <20040312230533.64794.qmail@web40311.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4048C017.2090201@cw.com>
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Hello, sorry for the delay :) ENOTIME :) > I am curious on what the state of the bluetooth hid drivers are. We > will sortly start some development on developing some bt hid devices and > I'm looking to setup a unix workstation of some kind for it. Is there > good enough support in FreeBSD 5.x for a bt keyboard or should I use a > linux workstation for now. the code is pretty much ready and working. i just need to clean it up and commit. right now i do not have much time to do this. > Also, it seems that just about all bt usb dongles use the same protocol > looking through the linux bt usb database where they all use the same > driver, though some need firmware installed. Is there a good chance > then that if linux supports a specific dongle without any firmware > requirements with the generic driver that it will work on FreeBSD as > Linux's tested hw list is much greater and we've already purchased a > belkin adapter. ng_ubt(4) driver should support any bluetooth usb dongle that conforms to the bluetooth specification. that is if the device works with linux hci_usb driver it should work with ng_ubt(4). certain belkin, d-link and other adapters use broadcom BCM2033 chip. this chip needs firmware download. FreeBSD supports these devices via ubtbcmfw(4) driver and bcmfw(8) utility. i have belkin F8T001 adapter and it works. thanks, max __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
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