On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 14:01 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/26/2015 01:33 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > Then why do my BT devices (mouse, headphones, an external > > speaker > > system) show up under the BT settings dialogue? > > > > > > Maybe those devices can work with or without the dongle? Or maybe > > these > > devices are somehow different than the devices I have experience > > with, > > that used Bluetooth to communicate with the dongle, but didn't > > require > > any Bluetooth software on the system, they showed up as USB > > devices. > > Those sorts of devices often have full-up driver stuff built into the > dongle, so the dongle itself does all the wireless stuff required > without bothering the system. Then, yes, they appear as USB devices > because that's all the dongle presents to the USB port. They're not > general-purpose BT dongles. My Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse does > precisely that. The wireless mouse shows up in "lsusb" as a USB-PS2 > wireless mouse, but NOT as a BT mouse (because it isn't BT). Which is what my extra mouse/kb combo does, as I've said. > I have a Broadcom USB BT dongle. The BT dongle shows up in an "lsusb" > as a BT dongle. Remember, Bluetooth means it uses RF in the correct > frequency bands and adheres to the Bluetooth protocols and that's all > it means. Mine too, and it shows up under lsusb. It has a BT MAC address which appears under the settings dialogue, and it's also visible to hcitool and hciconfig. i.e. the system unquestionably knows that it's a BT device. What it does with that information is another matter. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
