Troubleshooting a USB Bluetooth Dongle

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

Rusty,

> First, thank you so much for the work you did.  After syncing everything up,
> I was able to get my bluetooth dongle to work.

you are welcome :) i'm glad it worked for you :) and, once again,
thanks for your hardware donation.

>  Oddly enough, I have to stop
> and then start /etc/rc.d/bluetooth to get it to work but that may be because
> I didn't completely clean out my first attempt.

that's interesting... that should not be happening. does it happen all
the time, or, did it happen just once?

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> However, how do I get audio to actually output through the headset is the
> question?  My apologies if this is an obvious question but I wasn't able to
> find much on this and in fact found threads going back to 2005.

ahh... that's completely different (and long) story :)

in short, freebsd still does not have full support for bluetooth audio
:( that includes both real bluetooth audio (i.e. sco) and bluetooth
audio that uses l2cap (i.e. a2dp). i kinda started to work on sco and
put some preliminary code out there, but got distracted by $real_job.
someone recently asked about a2dp, but not sure where it went from
there.

sorry to give you bad news

thanks,
max