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

[Sebastian Henschel <linux@kodeaffe.de>]

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hi!

thanks for your and Erwin's hint...

* Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> [2005-03-09 19:02 +0100]:
> > 
> > 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.

sorry to say that, but this works neither on the Powerbook, nor on the
Zaurus.
hciattach fails with
    BCSP initialization timed out
for every baudrate.

cheers,
 Sebastian
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