Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:00:44 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth management software? Message-ID: <4353E6CC.2000705@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <001301c5d341$78adfad0$652a15ac@smiley>
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Darren, > Now that Bluetooth is edging itself into production with the talk of merging > the related scripts into /etc, I'm wondering if the user side of things has > come along as well? probably not as one would hope. > When I got my mouse, phone and PDA working with FreeBSD, it took > considerable work: looking at communications, grabbing IDs, manually editing > files, etc. well, yes, i agree. things could be better. > But in certain other OSen, Bluetooth is managed with an app capable of > configuring services, searching for and adding new devices. Does such > user-land software exist in FreeBSD? Preferably a CLI with an optional X > front end? i not really sure what are you talking about here. it is true - there is no user gui interface, but cli tools are there. 1) configuring services: if you mean configure services on freebsd side then its up to the application providing service to configure it. for example rfcomm_pppd(8) or obexapp(1) from ports will register services with local sdpd(8). all you need to do is to make sure sdpd(8) is running and when you start rfcomm_pppd(8) or obexapp(1) they will register LAN or OPUSH service with sdpd(8). 2) searching for devices: hccontrol inquiry 3) searching for services: sdpcontrol(8) cli or libsdp(3) application interface 4) i'm not sure what do you mean by "adding new devices". i know in windows you will have a separate com port if you want to use "serial port" service, but freebsd you do not need to. in freebsd you will use pty(4). thanks, maxhome | help
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