OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Has anyone gotten the HP-iPaq Bluetooth keyboard to work under the OS2008 beta? I have tried both the built-in bluetooth keyboard system in the control panel AND the btkbd hack from fanoush.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

I have not included proper kernel module for new kernel into kbdd.tar.gz yet. Correct uinput.ko module is inside this archive http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/modules-r....6.21.0.tar.gz and you need to put it to kbdd directory and rename to uinput.ko.kernelversion where kernelversion can be found by running 'uname -r' on your OS2008-based device. It is something like 2.6.21-omap1.

I'll add it to kbdd archive ASAP, hopefully today.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Let me know if it worked, when thinking about this maybe there is a problem with rfcomm binary. I know pand for PAN bluetooth networking is missing in OS2008 so rfcomm command may be missing too. If this is the case btkbd script needs some serious D-BUS hackery similar to the pand one.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Thanks Fanoush,

When run ./btkbd scan I get "hcitool not found"

When I enter the address anyhow (I already know it) and run
./btkbd I get "sdptool not found"

I have found an 'sdp-query' that seems to be similar to sdptool. I'll try changing btkdb to use that and see if it works.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Hmm, maybe whole bluez-utils package is not installed or no longer includes those basic commands? I'll check it on my device when I get home.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

bluez-utils is installed. It's possible (though unlikely) that I wrecked my bluez-utils install. sdp-query has a very similar function to sdptool ( see http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/sdpquery.1.html though that page is for sdpquery, not sdp-query.)

The built-in bluetooth system doesn't seem to know how to use the SPP profile as a keyboard. But it DOES know how to find the keyboard and pair with it as SPP. Perhaps there is a way to connect that system with uinput?

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

It is more likely that with OS2008 all those commands are no longer included and only D-BUS is used, see http://wiki.bluez.org/

if you try 'dpkg -L bluez-utils' is there anything in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin?

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Nothing...
Here is what I get:

/home/user/MyDocs/kbdd # dpkg -L bluez-utils
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/hcid
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/changelog.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/bluetooth
/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-input
/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-serial
/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-audio
/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-network
/usr/lib/alsa-lib
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_bluetooth.so
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_bluetooth.so
/etc
/etc/dbus-1
/etc/dbus-1/system.d
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf
/etc/default
/etc/default/bluez-utils
/etc/bluetooth
/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
/etc/bluetooth/input.service
/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
/etc/bluetooth/audio.service
/etc/bluetooth/network.service
/etc/bluetooth/serial.service
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/bluez-utils
/home/user/MyDocs/kbdd #

I'll look into doing it with D-Bus.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Yes, that's what I feared, only hcid and all services moved to /usr/lib/bluetooth/

This will need to rewrite btkbd in python over D-BUS or do some nasty dbus-send scripting hackery. As python is a bit bloated and still not installed by default I'll try the latter. It will be similar to my recent PAN networking D-BUS experiment.

Re: OS2008 and iPaq Bluetooth kbd
 

Fanoush,
I hope you have had more success than I have. One problem is that the uinput.ko.2.6.21-omap1 module cannot be installed; "Invalid module format (-1): Exec format error"

Also, the rcomm program is missing from os2008beta. I don't know how to replace all that functionality using DBus. Obiwan, you are our only hope! :)