From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 20:01:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDDA16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:01:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net (mailgate1b.savvis.net [216.91.182.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DED43D49 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:01:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Maksim.Yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from out001.email.savvis.net (out001.apptix.savvis.net [216.91.32.44])iAHK10Jn001690; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:01:00 -0600 Received: from s228130hz1ew03.apptix-01.savvis.net ([10.146.4.28]) by out001.email.savvis.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:00:57 -0600 Received: from [10.254.186.111] ([66.35.239.94]) by s228130hz1ew03.apptix-01.savvis.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:00:53 -0600 Message-ID: <419BADF3.5060704@savvis.net> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:00:51 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040822 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Loren M. Lang" References: <20041115222455.GA5468@alzatex.com> <419B8314.3080306@savvis.net> <20041117192310.GA30137@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20041117192310.GA30137@alzatex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2004 20:00:53.0460 (UTC) FILETIME=[24C13940:01C4CCE0] X-ECS-MailScanner: No virus is found cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth Keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:01:25 -0000 Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:57:56AM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > >>Loren M. Lang wrote: >> >>>So... how is the bluetooth hid driver coming along that I heard was >>>being worked on back in January. He said he was making good progress, >>>but I still don't see any program to enable hid support in FreeBSD 5.3. >>>My bt keyboard shows up as a bt device, but that's about it. >> >>it is coming along. i finally started to commit bits and pieces (i.e. >>vkbd(4)) > > I actually ran across vkbd, it looks like a generic way to insert > keyboard events into the kernel, but not specific to any technology like > bluetooth. I'm assuming you also have a user-land daemon that uses > sockets to talk on bluetooth then pass the event to vkbd. Is there a correct > place to find the userland daemon source at the moment or do you just > have a private copy? there is somewhat old version is in cvs, but it is not connected to the build /usr/src/usr.sbin/bluetooth/bthidcontrol /usr/src/usr.sbin/bluetooth/bthidd you can read the code and try to get the idea. bthidcontrol(8) should just work. bthidd(8) has very simple support for bluetooth mouse and no support for the keyboard. > I would like to help with this project since I've had my bluetooth > keyboard sitting on the shelf for months waiting for support in freebsd > and I have been doing some other work in bluetooth recently. sure. i'll be glad to review and commit your patches. max