Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:16:46 -0700 From: maksim yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: "freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org" <freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Serial Port Profile Message-ID: <44B914EE.9030900@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <1152964774.758.20.camel@RabbitsDen> References: <44B86410.3030108@centtech.com> <1152964774.758.20.camel@RabbitsDen>
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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:42 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >> I have the need to set up an RFCOMM serial port profile over bluetooth. >> I see the rfcomm_sppd tool, but that connects to another remote >> bluetooth device's serial port profile. What I need, is to offer a >> serial port profile to bluetooth clients, and have a /dev/tty* entry to >> talk with. >> >> Is it implemented already? If it is, please point me in the right >> direction (man pages?) If it isn't how much work is it, and would it be >> complicated for a novice to do? no, offering serial port service is not implemented yet. no, it is not much work to implement it. you can use rfcomm_pppd (server mode) as an example of how to offer a services. you will need to register serial port service with sdpd(8) after you open rfcomm socket (you will be advertising rfcomm channel with sdpd(8)). >>From what limited knowledge I have, your quickest path seems to be to > hack /usr/src/usr.sbin/bluetooth/rfcomm_pppd/rfcomm_pppd.c somewhere > inside > > 384:exec_ppp(int s, char *unit, char *label) > > to start whatever is that you want talking to your clients instead of > 'pppd'. actually, there is no need to execute any external program. there are two options: 1) use pty(4) 2) use nmdm(4) thanks, max
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