Re: [Bluez-users] Billionton CF card (bt950)

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Sebastian,

> howdy folks...
> 
> i have a CF card from Billionton here with the P/N CFBT02-B2.
> cardctl ident reveals:
>     product info: "Compact Flash", "Bluetooth Card", "", ""
>     manfid: 0x0279, 0x950b
>     function: 2 (serial)
> 
> /etc/pcmcia/bluetooth.conf reads:
>     card "Billionton Bluetooth Card"
>         version "Compact Flash", "Bluetooth Card"
>         bind "serial_cs"
> 
> having read in the archives, bt950_cs and btuart_cs should not be used
> nowadays, but serial_cs with the combination of hciattach. you
> should forget about the other two, right?
> 
> first, i tried to get it going in an Apple Powerbook (Alu, 2nd gen)
> with kernel 2.6.11. but as others with similar cards (i believe the card
> from Socket mentioned here
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6735172&forum_id=1883
> to be more or less the same), it does not work. it is believed to have
> something to do with the serial support in 2.6 kernels.
> 
> then, i tried with the machine the card shall actually work with:
> Zaurus SL-5500 with OpenZaurus 3.5.2, kernel 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix.
> unfortunately, the situation isn't any better. so far, serial_cs
> recognizes the device:
>     ttyS03 at port 0xc48602f8 (irq=35) is a 16C950/954
> 
> but using hciattach with type "csr" always fails with
>     Initialization timed out.
> 
> trying with type "ericsson" and all kinds of speeds, it fails when
> issueing "hciconfig hci0 up" with the message
>     Can't init device hci0. Connection timet out(110)
> and the kernel log is filled to message
> nearly identical to these seen on the Powerbook with kernel 2.6:
>     h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type 00
>     h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type 00
>     h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type 80
>     h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type f8
>     h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type 00
>     h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type 78
> 
> the other types have not been tried on the Zaurus, but on the Powerbook.
> bt950_cs and btuart_cs have also been tried on the Zaurus, with different,
> but somewhat similar error messages (replace h4_recv by btuart_cs for
> instance).
> 
> so, it does not seem to be a problem of 2.6 only. 2.4 does not work,
> too. well, i fear this will be nothing more than a "metoo". at least,
> others are warned about this specific card. :)

maybe this card is using BCSP or a different initial baudrate.

Regards

Marcel




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