From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: Bluetooth fixes for 2.6.20-rc5 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:33:50 +0100 Message-ID: <1169627630.20178.2.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> References: <1169502134.27023.24.camel@violet> <20070123.220303.59657561.davem@davemloft.net> <1169624333.15396.2.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> <20070123.224404.70218891.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from coyote.holtmann.net ([217.160.111.169]:47467 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933187AbXAXHde (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:33:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070123.224404.70218891.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Dave, > > I have one of these and I played with it. They use HID over Bluetooth as > > protocol, but all reports are vendor specific. So you need a specific > > driver to make something useful out of these events. > > It really shouldn't be hard to reverse engineer this right? > Just press a button and see what it spits out? > > Sure, the rotational events from the motion sensor et al. might take a > little time to figure out, but it should be doable. some stuff has already been done in this area. I put some information and a link to it on my page: http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/wiimote.html The hardest part at the moment is to get the speaker on the Wiimote doing something useful and I personally wanna get to the internal flash area of the Bluetooth chip. Regards Marcel