8.0-Beta2 / Ideapad S10e / bwi
Bruce Simpson
bms at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 20 12:48:49 UTC 2009
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
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