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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Re: bluez and dbus
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:12:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139555572.22066.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EC3341.6010100@gmail.com>

Hi Doug,

> >since you are creating the connection the value in /etc/bluetooth/pin is
> >never used. It is for incoming connection that request an authentication
> >and if security is set to auto.
> 
> The way this is working right now, I need a second keyboard attached. When I reboot
> I can not get a connection with the bt keyboard without doing a hidd --search? 
> 
> you stated in your previous reply to run hidd --server
> it is started from my rc.local, so should I not have a connection once I get to my login
> prompt?

it should be started from /etc/init.d/bluetooth depending on your Linux
distribution. You get a connection once you press a key on your
keyboard.

> If thing's were setup to require a key, and this key was stored on the chip, would this
> not allow me to have a connection bt_kb<---->dongle as soon as there is power at the dongle
> on a reboot, so perhap's I could have a keyboard available at my grub prompt? Or am I right
> out to lunch on this one. :)

To have a keyboard at BIOS time you need a HID proxy dongle. Check the
various mailing list archives for details on it.

> Here's probably a more retarded question. If it was working like I mention above, would my
> bios know there was a keyboard connected to the dongle, so it didn't spit "no keyboard found"
> at me. My desk has one to many keyboard's on it, 

The HID proxy dongle will also take care of this.

Regards

Marcel




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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-10  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-10  6:31 [Bluez-users] Re: bluez and dbus nix4me
2006-02-10  7:12 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-10 20:44 nix4me
2006-02-11  3:47 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-02-10  2:19 nix4me
2006-02-10  2:32 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-02-09 20:09 Doug Chalmers
2006-02-10  0:59 ` Marcel Holtmann

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