8.0-Beta2 / Ideapad S10e / bwi

[Bruce Simpson]

Vizeli Pascal wrote:
> The bluetooth driver also dosn't work. But that is a nice to have feature. I will porting
> the bluetooth drivers from openbsd or netbsd (at the moment i've forgotten witch bsd have implement this driver) into the next freebsd version.
>   

Can you describe exactly how Bluetooth doesn't seem to work for you with 
the new machine?

    Maksim Yevmenkin has done sterling work on the FreeBSD 
Netgraph-based Bluetooth stack. If there is a regression with the 
Bluetooth drivers in FreeBSD 8.0, then now is the best time to get it 
sorted out.

    These are fairly standard parts, however; most Bluetooth chips these 
days are USB and use the standard HCI interface, so it's difficult to 
know what's wrong, without detailed debugging information (usbdevs -v 
output, hccontrol output, dmesg etc).

    There is another Bluetooth stack in NetBSD, which was written by 
Iain Hibbert, sponsored by Itronix. It does not use Netgraph, however, 
it depends heavily on a number of NetBSD-specific system components, 
e.g. proplib.

    If you're up for all the porting work, that's great -- I would 
certainly not be one to discourage you -- but it seems like a lot of 
work just to fix a driver regression.

thanks,
BMS