Bluetooth HID Profile

[tallemd]

http://www.visi.com/~pmk/msbtkb-linux.html
bluez claims to only do keyboards from kernel version 2.6.? on
and last i checked we actually had a 2.4 kernel
i should probably check again
i could have sworn we had a 2.6 oh well
the driver at the above link works for 2.4 though so
as soon as i get around to building a cross compile tool chain
1 get money
2 get computer
3 install linux
4 install tool chain
5 build many fun toys to play with

[rpconnect]

@tallemd
have you tried communicating w/ the BT keyboard via rfcomm? i've wanted to try this with one of those bluetooth led projection keyboards and thought i might have to make the connection to the device via rfcomm then write a stupid "driver" to parse the characters and get them into the app.

with our own "driver" it could even parse out special command keys, for example use alt+arrow keys to move a mouse-pointer around the GUI.

also, if you have access to a decent window's PC, i'd recommend VMWare. you can download the trial version and install a linux distro and all tool-chain and ezx development stuff for free. the VMWare workstation evaluation version is only good for 30 days, but after that you can use the VM Player which is free.

[tallemd]

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermai...ly/018826.html

well made a second go of it.
still no luck
i'm wondering now if the problem is a lack of support in the windowing stuff and the applications stuff

the link up top gives proper setup for a usb keyboard of some sort
more importantly it gives about half of /input/

its worth noting that bluezx .2 includes hidp.o which is enough kernel module wise. but its hanging either in the apps the windows or mabey but i doubt it in the dev file system. of slightly more use the major number is either 10 13 or mabey but i doubt 11.
cd /proc

bluez # cd /proc
proc # cat devices major numbers
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
13 input
14 sound
29 fb
81 video_capture
89 i2c
90 mtd
108 ppp
127 gpio_test
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
166 usb/acm/%d
180 usb
189 ptf
210 phone
216 rfcomm
238 midicomm
239 midi
244 mmcsysif
250 ts0710mux

Block devices:
31 mtdblock
62 roflash
100 tffs
243 mmc
proc # cat misc minor #s of misc
21 usbdl
244 cami2c
198 fmradio
242 keypadI
241 keypadB
240 keypad
250 emu
158 button
14 ezx_ts
132 led
135 rtc
134 apm_bios