From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 27 18:50:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B9A16A40F for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:50:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net (mailgate1b.savvis.net [216.91.182.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5B8441B6 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:05:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392093BED2; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:06:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate1b.savvis.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22626-01-3; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:06:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from [10.12.163.251] (unknown [10.12.163.251]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D9E3BE81; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:06:38 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <456B292D.3000509@savvis.net> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:06:37 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060906) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" References: <20061126005413.0faaea7b@localhost> <1164502329.816.8.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <1164502329.816.8.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at savvis.net Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org, Jona Joachim Subject: Re: Support for Bluetooth Keyboards? 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, 27 Nov 2006 18:51:00 -0000 Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 00:54 +0100, Jona Joachim wrote: >> Hi! >> I wanted to know if Bluetooth keyboards are likely to work on FreeBSD. >> I'm looking at this marvellous object to be precise: >> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ >> >> They say that they "were able to get the Bluetooth Virtual Laser >> Keyboard to work with Mac OSX using the built-in bluetooth support in >> the OS." then it should work in releng_6 and -current. > I am running Apple Bluetooth keyboard on -CURRENT. I order to accomplish > that, I have followed steps outlined by Eric Anderson here > > http://destari.blogspot.com/2006/01/setting-up-bluetooth-mouse-on-freebsd.html > > There seems to be a quirk in the bthidd which causes it reattach > keyboard every couple of minutes, so I am accustomed to seeing vkbd >> 10000 being attached but these seem to be harmless enough. YMMV, > though. hmmm... i'd like to get more information on this. does this happen when you type on the keyboard? or when keyboard is idle? if this happens when the keyboard is idle, then, i'd guess, the keyboard simply kills the bluetooth connection to conserve battery. if bluetooth connection was in fact killed then bthidd(8) will close vkbd(4) device and it will, in turn, detach vkbd(4) keyboard. in any case, could you please get an hci dump (binary) when this happens and sent it to me? or could you please tell me how to reproduce this locally? thanks, max