Bluetooth discussion kickoff

[Paul Ionescu]

Hi all,

For beginning, I thing we can add support for bluetooth BNEP interfaces,
which behaves like a real network interface (bnep0, bnep1 etc). This way
they can be tracked and used in NetworkManager, and if there is no
wired/wireless net available, we can use bluetooth networking
automatically if available. Then how about adding the other logical
network interfaces like ppp, irda a.s.o ? 

I think here we have multiple stage creation: 
First we add a bluetooth device in HAL. At a later time, when we have a
PAN connection and a bnep0 interface we have to add bnep0 as a networking
device in HAL. And then if the PAN connection is finished, bnep0 is gone,
and we have to remove it from HAL.

The same goes for serial/a.s.o interfaces and ppp protocol.
AFAIK there is a hotplug event when those interfaces gets created.

We need all usable network devices in HAL for NetworkManager to see
and manage them. (and not only for this)

Best regards,
Paul

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:33:51 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 19:57 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>> > 
>> > Is there anywhere where I can read up about how bluetooth works?  I
>> > have a USB dongle for it, but I've only ever used it on my mac.
>> 
>> I looked a bit at bluetooth on linux for work stuff, and the PDF found
>> at http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/21149 was *really* helpful.
>> Thanks Edd ;)
>> 
>> 
> Yah, that's a very nice walkthrough.
> 
> I played around with Bluetooth a bit with this over the weekend using my
> Sony T68i phone, and I must admit it rocks (especially the app that sends
> and receives SMS's, yay!). The way we should approach this in hal is
> probably to only to expose the HCI adapters and leave it at that. As Dan
> says, it's basically just like networking only with the open sockets being
> exposed as /dev/rfcomm%d files.
> 
> That's my take anyway, what do other people think?
> 
> Cheers,
> David


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