Hi Guys: Unfortunately I haven't been able to get ahold of the documentation for what is happening under the hood here. If I do, i'll be glad to get some form of a patch together or try to get said documentation released. Regards Marcel Holtmann wrote: > 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 > -- Mario Limonciello *Dell | Linux Engineering* mario_limonciello@xxxxxxxx
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