apple bluetooth keyboard

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:24 -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Dear Bluetooth Users,
> 
> i now own apple bluetooth keyboard. i had a minute to spare and tried 
> bthidd(8) and bthidcontrol(8) with the most recent changes by Markus 
> Brueffer.
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> 2) for whatever reason, right shift does not work. both left and right 
> ctrl, alt and left shift work as expected
It works on mine (-CURRENT from February 13). Does it work for you at
all (e.g. Mac OS, Windows)?

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> everything else seems to be working just fine.
<alt><tab> combination in Gnome does something odd -- window switch box
disappears as soon as you release <tab> without releasing <alt>. I did
not investigate it much further though.

> another minor issue, which has nothing to do with, bthidd(8) or 
> bthidcontrol(8), is pairing procedure. it is not very user friendly, 
> because there is no indication as to when user should type pin code on 
> the keyboard. this can be addresses by teaching hcsecd(8) to use 
> external processes to obtain pin codes. hcsecd(8) could call external 
> process that will display dialog to the user and request pin code.
I know it is ugly, but running hcidump and typing in PIN and Enter when
you see PIN request going out and stalling did the trick ;)

> now, when kbdmux(4) was fully integrated into -current and releng_6 it 
> should be much more easier to use bluetooth keyboards with freebsd.

> thanks,
> max
Thank you very much for doing this work!

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)