Subject: Re: Bluetooth
To: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
From: ober <ober@linbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/24/2006 02:02:18
Congrats!
Nice to see this done cleanly, and without netgraph. :P

-Ober

Richard Chesler: [Reading a piece of paper] The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club?
Narrator: [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in the copy machine.
Richard Chesler: The second rule of Fight Club - is this yours?
Narrator: Huh?
Richard Chesler: Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do?

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:46:35 +0100 (BST)
> From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
> To: tech-kern@NetBSD.org, tech-net@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Bluetooth
> 
> Hi,
>   As some of you may know, I have been working on some Bluetooth support
> for NetBSD for a while. Initially this was on my own, and latterly under
> generous sponsorship of Itronix, Inc.  I am pleased to announce that my
> work is now available for review at:
>
>      http://homepages.rya-online.net/plunky/netbt.32.tar.gz
>
>   Currently, support exists for L2CAP (sequential packet), RFCOMM (serial
> data) and SCO (isochronous audio data) sockets to remote devices.
> Utilising these are userland daemons to handle Service Discovery and
> Key/PIN Management, kernel support for Human Interface Devices via wscons
> and Headsets via the audio subsystem, plus userland utilities for
> configuration and a wrapper for pppd to operate over RFCOMM links. There
> are plenty of manpages.
>
>   I welcome any and all comments. Apologies in advance if I'm not quick
> to reply but I'm kind of away sailing at the moment and have limited email
> access. The tarfile contains the following files
>
> 	HOWTO		- this is the important readme file
> 	NOTES		- just some notes on porting software
> 	CHANGES 	- change log
> 	TODO		- my todo list
> 	netbt.32.patch	- patches against -current
> 	netbt.32.shar	- new files under /usr/src
> 	netbt.32.tools	- utils I used for testing (some GPL)
>
> iain
>