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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] hcid vs. hciconfig hci0 up
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:05:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101927915.15615.13.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY102-F210C30E45F8EA3793EF85AD2BF0@phx.gbl>

Hi Theresa,

> I got my server app running on an Axis developer's board  83 with the use of 
> an RFCOMM socket on channel one for the BT comm.  After flashing my board 
> w/the new kernel (for BlueZ to work) I noticed I could not run the hcid 
> daemon w/out the board either giving msgs about no kernel access to the 
> device or even kernel panics when i put the hcid in a startup script.  (For 
> those familiar w/this board, I can do a network boot of the same image and 
> it all works fine)
> 
> I know this issue has nothing to do w/this list, but I wanted to know:
> 
> What is the difference between running the hcid and using "hciconfig hci0 
> up" to bring up the device.  Since I cannot use hcid, I just use hciconfig 
> to manually bring up the device and my app works fine.  Whats the difference 
> between the two?  And is it better to use the daemon?

the hcid brings the device up and sets some more settings based on its
config file (for example name etc.).

Regards

Marcel




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-01 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-01 17:18 [Bluez-devel] hcid vs. hciconfig hci0 up theresa g.
2004-12-01 19:05 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-12-01 21:02   ` theresa g.

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