From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 22:13:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31296106566C for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-bluetooth@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B398FC23 for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2A4F5C22; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:23:05 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4DF53A6F.9080701@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:15:11 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110204 Thunderbird/3.0.11 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iain Hibbert References: <4DF46049.6080206@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus bluetooth device - 0x1712 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: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:13:56 -0000 On 06/12/11 17:30, Iain Hibbert wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Da Rock wrote: > > >> Trying to get this device to work on my laptop (after some time of neglect - >> I've had no use or time to look into it as yet), but none of the drivers seem >> to be working. I've even tried the atheros driver by Rusty which doesn't >> appear to be the same device anyway. >> >> Under usbconfig I get: >> on usbus5 >> >> Any ideas? >> > class 224/1 is wireless/rf, is there a way to check the device protocol? > it should be 1 (bluetooth) for the ubt driver to match.. > How do I find that out? Isn't it the rev number there? Or do I need to run a command to find that out? I can't physically look at the device as its built into the laptop board. > >> Also, what is the state of bluetooth 2.x? Everything I've read has only >> mentioned 1.1. >> > 4.0, 3.0& 2.x spec are all mostly backwards compatible (there are very > few deprecations) and the FreeBSD stack should continue to work on all > modern devices, albeit without advanced features.. > Ok, I get that people are busy working on other (possibly) more important things, but what is required to get the advanced features working? Where can I find out the current status of these projects and how to help? I'm currently learning about this technology (I know, late bloomer and all... :) ) and its various features- which are why I'm looking carefully at it now for my current needs. Unfortunately its the advanced features which I really need :( So if I can help advance things I will. Cheers