Re: [Bluez-users] getting bluetooth v1.2

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Marco,

> > The CSR BlueCore02/BlueCore3/BlueCore4 chips support inquiry with RSSI,
> > but the Silicon Wave ROM chips I have seen so far have a problem with
> > inquiry with RSSI event size. The Broadcom chips don't support inquiry
> > with RSSI (this includes the Microsoft 2.0 dongle).
> 
> hciconfig -a tells me that the manufacturer of my dongle is "Cambridge 
> Silicon Radio (10)". this is one of the problems-dongle, right?

check with "hciconfig hci0 revision" as root what BlueCore chip is on it
and no, these are not the problematic dongles.

> so, an update to bt v1.2 wouldn't make sense to me...

What does "lsusb" tells you?

> >>Is it still to early for bluetooth v1.2?
> >  
> > It is actually too late, because we are moving to Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
> > support.
> 
> but it's too early for 2.0 yet?

Actually it is not. The only problem at the moment is that the Bluetooth
module manufactures don't get the BlueCore4 modules done. After that you
will see them in the USB dongles and the CSR BlueCore4 already supports
EDR without any problems and so do BlueZ.

Regards

Marcel




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