Re: Bluetooth woes

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%ogmig.net@localhost>]

Marc Baudoin writes
> % dmesg | grep ubt
> [     3,395938] ubt0 at uhub1 port 5
> [     3,395938] ubt0: vendor 8087 (0x8087) product 0a2b (0xa2b), rev 2.00/0.01, addr 1

Hello

Sorry to say, this Intel adapter is not supported by NetBSD at this time. 
I do have one in my laptop but the solution is a bit complex for the time 
I have available and I've been using an external dongle instead.

The problem with the Intel adapters is that they identify as a Bluetooth 
device but they won't work as one until the ROM is loaded; our stack 
attaches by default but none of the normal initialization commands work, 
so btconfig will show the _INIT flags as they have not completed and the 
device won't work.

Some older Broadcom devices would identify as something else, then when 
the firmware attached would reattach as a Bluetooth so that worked ok; the 
later Broadcom devices had a functional ROM and you could use it properly 
and manually load a new ROM for better functionality. Both of those were a 
lot easier to support, this is a bit more complex as the stack currently 
has no way to send/receive packets to a device which is not initialized.

regards
iain