Re: [Bluez-devel] Logitech MX900 mouse with Dell Inspiron 8600

[Charles Bueche <charles@bueche.ch>]

Hi Marcel and Olivier,

it works. Shame on me. Your remark about my empty link policy googled me
to another hcid.conf, and I suddenly saw mine, which was wrongly
configured, and worst, *hcid wasn't started*.

I'm running gentoo, and for some reason, there are no startup script for
bluetooth, so I was starting it by hand (hciconfig hci0 up).

Now, my mouse isn't jumpy at all anymore. The only glitch left is that I
have to press its "connect" button just after starting bthid if I want a
link. Is there a way to get this automated ?

I don't like to criticize about missing docs, because I have the same
problem at my main contract as Solaris admin (too many things to do to
write proper docs). However, bluez suffer a bit from that problem. They
are loads of small HOWTOs, but I miss a sort of white paper to explain
bluetooth in general. Any pointer is welcome.

Meanwhile, I'm still ready to test new versions of bthid or its future
replacement. Thanks a lot for your help. As soon as my last prob is
worked out (auto-connect of MX900), I'll finish my
"yet-another-bluez-mini-HOWTO" :-)

Charles

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 20:04, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> > it's a CSR, it's included in my Dell Inspiron 8600. The I8600 is recent,
> > but of course it tells nothing about the included bluetooth module. Here
> > are the details :
> > ---
> > # hciconfig -a
> > hci0:   Type: USB 
> >         BD Address: 00:10:C6:22:54:AF ACL MTU: 192:8  SCO MTU: 64:8
> >         UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
> >         RX bytes:88278 acl:5562 sco:0 events:305 errors:0
> >         TX bytes:3779 acl:170 sco:0 commands:54 errors:0
> >         Features: 0xff 0xff 0x0f 0x00
> >         Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
> >         Link policy: 
> >         Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT 
> >         Name: 'laptopcb (0)'
> >         Class: 0x000000
> >         Service Classes: Unspecified
> >         Device Class: Miscellaneous, 
> >         HCI Ver: 1.1 (0x1) HCI Rev: 0x235 LMP Ver: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subver:
> > 0x235
> >         Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
> > 
> > ---
> > I don't know how to find the firmware version. I have a dual boot with
> > XP, so I could look there if there is now way in Linux.
> 
> this is a HCI 16.5 with 128 bit encryption and it should work fine. The
> problematic part is maybe that you have no link policy set. The minimum
> options should be rswitch and sniff. Please use
> 
> 	http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/btdfu-0.2.tar.gz
> 
> to extract your firmware and send it to me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
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