Bluetooth GPS

Alexander Pohoyda alexander.pohoyda at gmx.net
Sun Aug 24 11:34:59 PDT 2003


Hi Maksim,

> > > > Is there some free software available?
> > > FreeBSD comes with Bluetooth stack - it does support Serial Port Profile.
> > 
> > I know that you have been asked this question before, but I have seen
> > no answer. How difficult would that be to have a Bluetooth support
> > in FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE? For example, this Serial Port Profile only?
> 
> it does not work like this, sorry. Serial Port Profiles is based on RFCOMM.
> RFCOMM in its turn based on L2CAP, L2CAP on HCI, etc. so you need to port
> entire stack back to 4.8-R.

How big the effort is? Your estimation?

> i barely have time to keep -current development going.

Yes, I understand.

> if you have time to port the code back to 4.8 i can offer my help.

Thanks a lot, I will get back to you when my Bluetooth USB dongles
arrive.


-- 
Alexander Pohoyda
<alexander.pohoyda at gmx.net>


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