* Pierre N <pierren@mac.com> [2004-04-26 09:25 +0200]: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 12:24, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:58, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > apple.com, on its "Bluetooth Firmware Updater 1.1": > > > > "Important: Applying this firmware updater to a D-Link USB to Bluetooth > > adapter will make it incompatible with non-Macintosh systems." > > <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bluetoothfirmwareupdater.html> note: they talk about the external adapter here (at least, that is how i understood it). perhaps they should mention that it is valid for the internal adapter as well. > > Anybody out there who knows more on that in the meantime, i.e. is there > > already a fix for it, or workaround, or whatever? > > Or is there even someone out there with a working bluetooth on Linux ppc > > after upgrading the machine to the new Buetooth Firmware? > > > I do have such a device working yes. It's a D-Link DBT 120 bluetooth USB > adapter updated to firmware 1.1. To get it working you have to get the > new utils from the CVS tree of bluez. > > 1) mkdir bluez > 2) cd bluez > 3) cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bluez.org:/cvsroot/bluez login > 4) cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bluez.org:/cvsroot/bluez co libs2 > 5)cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bluez.org:/cvsroot/bluez co utils2 > 6) cd libs2 > 7) ./bootstrap; ./configure; make; sudo make install > 8) cd ../utils2 > 9) ./bootstrap; ./configure; make; sudo make install > 10) "Insert your usb adapter now" > 11) cd hid > 12) ./hid2hci the same applies to the internal device. that tool should output: Switching device 05ac:1000 to HCI mode was successful debian users do not have to do the "configure" thingy. libs2 and utils2 ship with a debian directory where you can just fakeroot debian/rules binary in them. although it seems that the debian stuff is rather old, it works for me and my dial-up/sync profile. beware that you have to remove some other debian-bluetooth packages (bluez-pan, libbluetooth1-dev). bye, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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