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Title: Gprs + Openbsd
Post by: obscurite on August 22, 2005, 06:14:28 pm

On the arm list, a couple of people said that OpenBSD probably wouldn't be able to use a CF card to do bluetooth GPRS with a bluetooth phone.

Here's the most interesting response I got:

"AFAIK, looking into src/sys/netbt, it seems that BT support in OBSD
is far from complete. Only HCI commands/events are supported, L2CAP and
RFCOMM is not implemented. The particular driver support (BCSP in the
case of Socket Communications (rev G) bluetooth card) wouldn't really
matter until network protocol stack is completed."
-Albert Rybalkin    

Seems like even a bluetooth USB dongle would be pointless. Any ideas? I used to use GPRS with my T610 phone with my C860 (cacko rom) and it was pretty useful. I'm trying to figure out if I can duplicate the experience somehow on a C3100 running OpenBSD.

Title: Gprs + Openbsd
Post by: barryg on August 22, 2005, 07:50:40 pm

Good day!

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Seems like even a bluetooth USB dongle would be pointless. Any ideas? I used to use GPRS with my T610 phone with my C860 (cacko rom) and it was pretty useful. I'm trying to figure out if I can duplicate the experience somehow on a C3100 running OpenBSD.
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You can still use those phone usb cables(I have a SE T68i, also tested on a T610 and
Z600) and use ppp for your GPRS connection, example here[0].

Mabuhay! barryg

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Title: Gprs + Openbsd
Post by: albertr on August 22, 2005, 08:46:52 pm

Just to add to the the post above, irda could be used too.

On the other hand, there's a hope that whoever ported HCI part of Netgraph bluetooth stack to OBSD will find some time to port other parts.
-albertr

Title: Gprs + Openbsd
Post by: obscurite on August 23, 2005, 01:30:04 am

Thanks - very good point about the USB cable.

Albert - how long would it take someone with only a passing knowledge of C or C++ to port the rest of that stack?