Bluetooth discussion kickoff

[Paul Ionescu]

Hi
I almost forgot bluetooth HID devices like keyboards and mice.


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:38:49 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:

> 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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