Hi Matthew, > I know that this is a developers list, but I have dug pretty deeply > here and got to the bottom of what the built-in USB bluetooth dongle > is. I have found that its CSR based. Under Windows Vista my Apple > keyboard and Logitech MX 900 work and are remembered across boots. > From what I have heard, this device should just work. System is a > Dell Vostro 1510 with Intel Core2Duo running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, > bluez 4.22. I also have an Intel 3945 ABG PCI mini wireless card in > it as well. > > I am willing to do the hacking to get this going - I used to submit > patches to the Linux kernel and develop/patch network drivers for > Frame Relay WAN, as well as making the 2.2x ehternet bridge accessible > via a virtual ethernet interface - my email address was > grantma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Should I be using the module flags for a straight CSR modem? Is the > kernel module btusb ths only place the bluez stack looks hard at the > hardware? > > From what I have found looking at posts to the list, the CSR dongle, > once it is set up properly - I don't mind running a CSR DFU firmware > on it - it should just work. > > I am going to test software by using my old Logitech dongle in the MX > 900 base station-charger. > > Getting the mouse going reliably and keyboard is going to help with my > frustrations with the small sized keys on the laptop keyboard when > essay writing - currently I am rebinding the OOo.org keys into an > emacs type of keymap. > > lsusb and hciconfig -a output follow. Is there anything else that may > be helpful? > > I gather that solving this will help out a lot of Ubuntu Dell laptop users. check with "hciconfig hci0 revision" and "bccmd buildname" (both as root) if they have a special Dell firmware running on it. If not then there can be still a Dell custom application running in the VM of the Bluetooth chip. Best bet is to ask Mario from Dell if he can help us out here and maybe make HID/HCI switching persistent across reboots. If not then we might have to write a bluetoothd plugin that does the job for us. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
