Support for Bluetooth Keyboards?

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 11/27/06 12:06, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
>> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
>>> 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."
>>
>> then it should work in releng_6 and -current.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> hmmm... i'd like to get more information on this. does this happen 
>> when you type on the keyboard? or when keyboard is idle?
>>
>> if this happens when the keyboard is idle, then, i'd guess, the 
>> keyboard simply kills the bluetooth connection to conserve battery. if 
>> bluetooth connection was in fact killed then bthidd(8) will close 
>> vkbd(4) device and it will, in turn, detach vkbd(4) keyboard.
>>
>> in any case, could you please get an hci dump (binary) when this 
>> happens and sent it to me? or could you please tell me how to 
>> reproduce this locally?
> 
> I see something like this too, but with mice.  I use a microsoft 
> bluetooth explorer mouse, and when it disconnects and goes into battery 
> sleep mode, and then comes back, it registers a new vkbd device.  Here's 
> some snippets:

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hmm... could you please post hid descriptor from your microsoft 
bluetooth explorer mouse?

also, binary hci dump (that captures detach/reattach event) would be nice.

thanks,
max