Re: Bluetooth on new PB (5,6)

["Chocron J." <chocronjl@free.fr>]

Hi,

Sorry for the delayed answer, but I did not want to bother you again without 
having tried everything. So, I read a lot about bluetooth this week, and 
tried many different configs, but I still can't make it work.

I used the 2.6.11.7 version of the kernel as you said, and patched it with the 
patches available on your website. Again, I tried putting use_both_schemes = 
1 and old_scheme_first = 1 in my modprobe.conf, and, seeing it did not work, 
hardcoded it in the kernel sources. I tried both udev and devfs, but none 
seem to work. hciconfig -a still outputs nothing, and hcidump says it cannot 
connect to hci0 since the device does not exist (which is right ;-) ).

I am sorry to turn to you again, but it seems you're the only one who managed 
to get it to work,

Thank you for your answer,

-- Jonathan


Le Mardi 26 Avril 2005 13:12, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> > I had a surge of adrenaline when I read that Johannes Berg had managed to
> > get bluetooth working on his post-feb 2005 PB.
>
> Heh.
>
> > First off, I have to confess one thing : I am a gentoo user, so my
> > problems could come from that.
>
> I wouldn't know, I never used gentoo, but I doubt it.
>
> > What I tried :
> > - Different kernels :
> >     - 2.6.10 (gentoo-kernel)
> >     - 2.6.11.5 (vanilla)
> >     - 2.6.11.6 (vanilla)
>
> Personally, as you can see on my homepage, I use 2.6.11.7 + patches. You
> shouldn't run a vanilla 2.6.11(.X) kernel on a new powerbook, too many
> things including temperature control won't work. Please see
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/PowerBook.
>
> > What is fairly interesting is that although they all have the new usb
> > enumeration as a default, only 2.6.10 generated the -71 error johannes
> > was talking about.
> > When I enabled use_both_schemes 2.6.10 stopped showing that error.
> > However,
> > when I look at the devices enumerated by the kernel, all three versions
> > report, on hub number one, only ports 1 and 3, and never the second port.
>
> I don't think I see the second port either, but I'm not sure (don't have
> mz PB here right now). But I think the keyboard is on the first, and
> bluetooth on the second and third or something weird.
>
> > Alas, it did not change anything,
> >
> > - Switching from udev to devfs :
> >     - Udev is the default dev-manager for gentoo, and I thought that
> > maybe it
> > could not create the device (udev has been reported to be unable to
> > create device nodes for exotic devices, and I thnik that the whole
> > computer falls under that category ;-) )
> >
> > Well, that did not change anything either.
>
> Ugh. Don't use devfs. udev works just fine, and a bluetooth usb device
> does not create any nodes in /dev unless you have rfcomm enabled afaik.
>
> What happens if you load the appropriate modules (usb_hci or hci_usb or
> whatever it is called) and then try hcidump?
>
> johannes