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

[Marco Trudel <mtrudel@gmx.ch>]

Hello Marcel

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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.

it's a BlueCore02

>>so, an update to bt v1.2 wouldn't make sense to me...
> 
> What does "lsusb" tells you?

it think you mean this line:
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle


>>>>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
Marco


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