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Date:      Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:52:09 -0500
From:      "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net>
To:        Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@free.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support for Bluetooth Keyboards?
Message-ID:  <1164502329.816.8.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061126005413.0faaea7b@localhost>
References:  <20061126005413.0faaea7b@localhost>

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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




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