From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 26 00:52:19 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 1F74816A40F for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6E243D64 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:51:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from [10.0.3.231] ([70.21.146.144]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0J9B00KYPBQY45WA@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:52:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:52:09 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <20061126005413.0faaea7b@localhost> To: Jona Joachim Message-id: <1164502329.816.8.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20061126005413.0faaea7b@localhost> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:52:19 -0000 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." > > Any answer is appreciated. 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. At some point, I also had this http://www.thinkoutside.com/stowawaybt_product.html working with the other laptop (back in the day when 6.x was -CURRENT), but mostly out of curiosity. HTH, -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko