Re: [Bluez-devel] Re: broadcom in disguise...

[Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard@killesreiter.de>]

Brad Midgley wrote:

Hi Brad!

>>> A couple of manufacturers switched from csr to broadcom around the time
>>> bluecore4 and the other edr chips came out. Not sure why.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I find this highly annoying. I have written to typhoon and asked for an
>> explanation.
>>     
>
> this is unfortunately a fairly standard practice across the computer
> hardware industry.
>   

If they'd at least update their docs...

Anyway, I got an anwer from them (didn't really expect one)!

They claim that the chip can be addressed by the broadcom driver but 
would definitly be a CSR chip.

Does that make any sense to anybody?




> bluetake has done the switcheroo as well but currently their BT007EX is
> our only source for a class 1 bluecore4 dongle so we like them again.
>
>   
>>>  If you've used the adapter in windows
>>> for sco audio
>>>  then it might change some nvram settings.
>>>       
>
> I really don't know much about the broadcom models or even if they do
> have nvram settings for this. It's possible they ship something that
> can't do sco out of the box but will do it after the windows driver
> initializes it. That's my "all out of ideas" suggestion.
>   

Guess I will need to take it to a windows box then.

Cheers,
    Gerhard


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