Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Alexander Leidinger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting "Maksim Yevmenkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 7 May 2008 13:05:02 -0700):
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Alexander Leidinger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I bought a keyboard with an integrated touchpad from logitech. Just
plugging in the BT-dongle gives an usb hub with ums and ukbd.
Unfortunately the ums doesn't work for me yet (problem in a separate
mail to usb@).
I googled a litte bit around and found a posting here
(http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-bluetooth/2006-December/000824.html)
which contains a program which puts the device into hci mode (by
accessing /dev/uhidX), so that I can use the HID devices with the
FreeBSD bluetooth stack directly. I haven't tried this yet (I would
have to remove ukbd and ums from the kernel...).
Is there the possibility to get this hid2hci feature in our userland
(or into the kernel controllable via a sysctl)? I would would be good
to have this functionality at boot (in the kernel it would would allow
to have ukbd available while still being able to put the device into
hci mode).
well, someone already ported hid2hci.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bluetooth/2007-July/000989.html
is a good starting point. i do not think that using sysctl is good
It doesn't make sense to have something like this in the base system?
yes, it does. however, one should be careful. original tool is under
gpl. there is a lot of code that looks very similar (if not identical)
to gpl version. also, at least for csr chips, the utility contain some
information about csr chips that they may or may not want be released.
i realize that this information is already public (due to gpl tool)
but you never know... i think port would be better solution for now.
Then that's a problem for me because I wrote the utility. IANAL, but I
don't think there's a problem here, because:
* The utility I wrote reads a file with matching USB IDs. The original
one has a list hardcoded into the program
* I don't use libusb, I call ioctl()'s specific to the BSD USB stack
* I didn't copy any code.
* I don't think my program can be considered a derived work
There are several open source tools out there that are similar, but have
incompatible licenses. This is another case.
Also, the author of hid2hci reads this list. If he considered that I
have used code from his utility, he would probably have tried to
convince me to change it, or even a threat to sue. (I don't know him,
I'm just saying out loud what could happen.)
Either way, I'm willing to do a port.
Thanks,
--
Rui Paulo
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