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Bluetooth devices wanted

Contributed by jason on from the four-out-of-five-dentists-prefer dept.

One of the ongoing developments for c2k7 has been the initial import of NetBSD's bluetooth stack to OpenBSD. Uwe Stuehler has begun work on the machine-independent parts of the code, while Gordon Willem Klok has ported NetBSD's ubt(4) driver.

Uwe is asking for bluetooth device donations to assist in their efforts. In particular, they're interested in phones, keyboards and audio devices. Contact uwe@ for more details.

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  1. By Kevin (24.148.72.216) on

    A worthy cause to contribute to.

    I bet quite a few of us have old bluetooth headsets sitting around collecting dust. It's not like you can sell something that's been in your ear on ebay (but then again, I've seen worse on ebay).

  2. By Timo Myyrä (195.212.29.92) on

    Hopefully they get bluetooth working, just got a T60 with bluetooth adapter so it would be nice to have it work under OBSD.
    Next stop would be getting some bluetooth devices to use with it :)

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    1. By mk (194.255.48.101) on

      > Hopefully they get bluetooth working, just got a T60 with bluetooth adapter so it would be nice to have it work under OBSD.
      > Next stop would be getting some bluetooth devices to use with it :)

      The built-in bluetooth controller should be supported by ubt(4), but you may need to turn it on using the Fn-F5 combo first.

  3. By Anonymous Coward (81.165.220.56) on

    Just a non bleutooth related question, a guy I know has a pc shop and he will allow me to boot laptops (lots) with an OpenBSD live cd when I ask him nicely.

    Are that kind of dmesg's of any use to the project?
    What should I included as well? Sensors, ACPI stuff etc?

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    1. By Timo Myyrä (195.212.29.83) on

      > Just a non bleutooth related question, a guy I know has a pc shop and he will allow me to boot laptops (lots) with an OpenBSD live cd when I ask him nicely.
      >
      > Are that kind of dmesg's of any use to the project?
      > What should I included as well? Sensors, ACPI stuff etc?

      Add following items for every laptop you can so we could have ACPI working in OBSD at some point.
      1. GENERIC dmesg
      2. GENERIC.MP dmesg
      3. GENERIC dmesg + acpi
      4. GENERIC.MP dmesg + acpi
      5. Your dsdt, run: acpidump -o name_of_my_machine.DSDT

      PS. Where to get OBSD livecd so I could provide one for my T60.

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      1. By Josh Grosse (68.43.88.176) on www.jggimi.homip.net

        > PS. Where to get OBSD livecd so I could provide one for my T60.

        This has links to 4 different OpenBSD LiveCDs I'm aware of... obviously, a link to my downloads page is at the top of that FAQ.

  4. By daco (82.59.12.16) on

    Very very cool news!
    What about bluetooth mice?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (217.237.166.98) on

      > Very very cool news!
      > What about bluetooth mice?

      and bluetooth keyboards usuable at the ddb> prompt ;-)

  5. By Martin Stensgård (81.167.77.108) on

    I'm looking forward to building bluetooth firewalls with OpenBSD.

  6. By Iggdawg (204.56.88.93) iggdawg@gmail.com on www.iggdawg.com

    I'm looking forward to bluetooth support. I'd like to be able to offer the internet to people who visit with bluetooth-enabled PDAs and that sort of thing. Right now I run bluetooth off my server (FreeBSD) but would like to keep public connections of any sort running off my OpenBSD box.

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    1. By Nick (24.19.134.83) nick.shank(AT)gmail(DOT)com on

      I've got one of the Microsoft Bluetooth tranceivers available. I don't recall the actual tranceiver model #, but it's picked up by both linux and Windows. Where should I ship it to?
      Nick

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