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Date:      Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:29:11 +0300
From:      Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
To:        Vladimir Botka <vlado@botka.homeunix.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bluetooth mouse/keyboard blues
Message-ID:  <1194427751.1493.5.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20071107070608.3e51cfc6@srv>
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On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:06 +0100, Vladimir Botka wrote:
> Dne Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:03:15 +0300
> Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> napsal(a):
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 14:47 -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> > 
> > > if you dual boot your system and use the same bluetooth device you
> > > will need to re-pair your keyboard every time you boot to another
> > > os. (if) you can get a link key from win xp registry (or elsewhere)
> > > you can put the same link key into hcsecd.conf and then you will
> > > not need to re-pair.
> > 
> > Hmm, strange, I have bluetooth mouse and it works under both Windows
> > and FreeBSD on my noteboot without re-pairing every boot to other OS.
> > 
> > I've not done anything special about it, just pair it once under
> > FreeBSD, then once under Windows.
> > 
> > What's the difference ? "Magically" it have generated same key for
> > both OSes ?
> > 
> > (my mouse is Logitech MX900)
> > 
> 
> I got Ligitech diNovo bluetooth keyboard and mouse which works just
> fine on 6.3 diskless X-terminal. The Logitech USB bluetooth receiver
> creates the links to the keybord/mouse and on the USB side just
> emulates USB keybord/mouse ukbd0/ums0. The bluetooth OS subsystem is not
> even running (no hcsecd), but you can switch it on if you want. So
> there is no pairing from the hcsecd point of view.

In my case it is "true" bluetooth connection, with appropriate entries
in bthidd.conf and in hcsecd.conf:
device {
        bdaddr  00:07:61:17:9b:27;
        name    "mouse";
        key     nokey;
        pin     "0000";
}


> Cheers,
> 	-vlado
-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova@fbsd.ru



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