bluetooth keyboards and /etc/rc.d/bluetooth

[Ronald Klop]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:52:52 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen  
<torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today I set up a bluetooth keyboard on a FreeBSD machine for the first
> time. The machine is running FreeBSD 7.0-stable:
> root at kg-vm# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-vm.kg4.no 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #10: Sat Apr 12
> 21:42:55 CEST 2008     root at kg-vm.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
>
> I used the Handbook chapter about bluetooth[1] (which needs updating as
> it doesn't mention bthidd at all) and mailing list messages as my guide.
> Basically, I found out that I needed to set up hcsecd(8) and bthidd(8)
> in order for this to work. You can read more ramblings about this
> experience on my "various hardware"[3] page. I wrote a mini how-to
> about the setup here[2], in case anyone is interested.
>
> I haven't worked with netgraph before. Netgraph devices aren't
> supposeed to create device node (names) in /dev, right?
>
> where does /etc/rc.d/bluetooth fit in the picture? Do I need to use
> that at all?
>
> References:
> 1) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-bluetooth.html
> 2) http://geekinfo.net/article.php?story=20080427222204364
> 3) http://tingox.googlepages.com/freebsd_various_hw

You can mail to freebsd-bluetooth at freebsd.org to. There are some  
responsive people with the right knowledge overthere.

Ronald.

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  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands