Re: [Bluez-users] Microsoft BT Dongle and other questions

[Bryan Forbes <bryan@reigndropsfall.net>]

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Marcel,
> [snip]
> If this is the new 2.0 version then I am interested. Otherwise it is
> useless, because I already have two of the older ones. What does lsusb
> tell me about your dongle?

This is definately the 2.0 version.  It says "Transiever for Bluetooth
2.0" on the back of it.

> [snip]
> Maybe should do a "hciconfig hci0 noscan" to disable inquiry and page
> scan. This should save battery power. If you don't need this dongle at
> all you can load the hci_usb driver with "ignore=1" (maybe a newer
> kernel is needed).
> 
> The PC notebooks have a hardware switch to physical disconnect the
> device from the USB bus. I don't know if a similar thing exists on the
> Apple machines.

I'll try this, thanks!

> [snip]
> I didn't had time to look at the suspend/resume support. On some
> machines it work and on some it don't.

How hard would it be to put this support in for the next patch cycle?


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