Hi,

I've been experimenting with the hcidump and hcitool, the 3Com usb-BT
dongle and the Apple BT Keyboard. I couldn't connect to the Keyboard.

In one of the sessions i was in X in the hcidump to a xterm, a windows
asking for a PIN poped up several times, at the same time i pushed
space or intro in tha Apple Keyboard to keep it awaken; i put a "1234"
and a "0000" from the pc105 keyboard in it but nothing happened. I
supose this was the pin-helper i had never seen before. In a later X
session with the hcidump to the file i'm sending here (inside the
.tar), i tried the same hcitool commands but i didn't see the PIN
window.

In all the times i tried to make the BT keyboard work, the "hcitool
cc" said "Can't create connection: I/O input error" or like that. When
i had the window with the PIN i could see a "PIN Request" at the dump,
but none of the PIN inputs i tried seemed to work, nor i could
anything at the dump with a "PIN succes" or "PIN request completed" or
something.

Don't know what to do... What should i do to connecto to the
keyboard?. Why i cann't make it to recive the PIN?, Which is the PIN
for the keyboard?, Whose is the /etc/bluetooth/pin?, How do BT devices
"start talking"?.

I'll keep on trying.

Thank you very much.

Jesús

2005/5/16, Jesús Cano Navarro <jesuscanonavarro@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for your interest!.
> 
> My first pair of questions is:
> -I don't know the whole set of tools that bluez-utils brings but i
> found at least two for connexions: the hidd daemon and hcitool, both
> have connexion parameters but:
> 1)¿which is the purpose of them?, ¿for what is every one? i couldn't
> dintinguish which one should i use to connect to a device.
> 2)How do i debug the activity with hcidump?, run hcidump alone in a
> console and work in another?, what parameters should i use?, -X -V -w
> <file>?
> 
> I'm on a Debian GNU/Linux testing, Kernel 2.6.8-2-686. Compaq Deskpro
> EN: Pentium 2 (Deschutes) 350, 256MB.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 2005/5/16, Andre Baron <andre@metalan.net>:
> > I echo Marco, however with one caveat; I don't believe you can replace
> [...]
> 
> > Marco Trudel wrote:
> >
> > > If you don't ask specific questions, we can't help you... So what's
> > > the current problem?
> > > It sounds like the last step was that marcel requested a hcidump of
> > > your failing action... So, I suggest to do so...
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Marco
> > >
> > >
> > > Jesús Cano Navarro wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi everybody,
> > >>
> > >> Thank you for reading this message and spending your time helping me
> > >> an the others.
> > >>
> > >> I tried to make the Apple BT Keyboard work with my GNU/Linux and
> > >> Marcel's help (thank you Marcel) but i did not have the tool "hcidump"
> > >> to debug the inquiries and conexions and i was too lost in this field.
> > >> Now i think (hope) i have it all and my goals are:
> > >>
> > >> -Make sure i have the right configuration needs for BT use.
> > >> -Permanently replace the pc105 keyboard.
> > >> -Configure correctly the Apple BT Keyboard.
> > >>
> > >> Would you please help/guide me to get it?, i would really appreciate
> > >> it!.
> > >>
> > >> I read several people have got it with the Apple keyboard.Somebody
> > >> told about writting a HOWTO, as it's becomeing an usual stuff
> > >> (GNU/Linux-Bluez and BT keyboards), i would be interested in help to
> > >> it.
> > >>
> > >> Thank you all.
> 
> Jesús Cano Navarro
> 
> 
>