Does FreeBSD's bluetooth support more than mice/keyboards?

Maksim Yevmenkin maksim.yevmenkin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 15:21:42 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Iain Hibbert <plunky at ogmig.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Chris H wrote:
>
>> This dongle works perfectly on OSX (I can pair). But
>> I'm coming up empty handed on FreeBSD. I'm running
>> (depending on the box) RELENG_9, or CURRENT (11).
>
> perhaps you need to specify a PIN at the FreeBSD side..?  (see
> hcsecd.conf(5))

yes, thanks Iain! :) also

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-bluetooth.html

is always a good place to start

>> What more must I do, or is it even possible on FreeBSD?
>
> also, what service do you wish to provide?  AFAIK none are built in, but
> obexapp is available in ports (comms/obexapp) which can provide file
> transfer/object push services.

well, not quite. there are a number of daemons that implement a
handful of services: serial port, dun, lan, pan. and, yes. ports tree
has obexapp too :)

thanks
max


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