Re: [Bluez-users] Re: DBT 120 dongle defaulting to HID mode

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Jesse,

> >> Ever since the firmware upgrade to BT 1.2, my DBT 120
> >> has been defaulting to HID mode. I only use HCI mode
> >> currently, so it freaked me out the first time this
> >> happened! I thought my dongle was dead! But then I
> >> remembered hid2hci.
> >> 
> >> Is there a way to change the default mode of this dongle
> >> back to HCI without downgrading the firmware?
> > 
> > yes, it is. You have to change the PS key for the boot mode.
> 
> OK. Has anyone written a program capable of changing arbitrary
> PS key settings yet? Or do I have to write my own?

there is the pskey program, but this will only work over UART with H:4
or BCSP transports. The BlueZ hciconfig code contains code to read PS
key values, but it can't store them. However I really think that we need
a graphical pstool for Linux like the CSR one for Windows.

Regards

Marcel




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