Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:00:51 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth Keyboard Message-ID: <419BADF3.5060704@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <20041117192310.GA30137@alzatex.com> References: <20041115222455.GA5468@alzatex.com> <419B8314.3080306@savvis.net> <20041117192310.GA30137@alzatex.com>
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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
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