Bluetooth

[wattymage]

Do I really need to change Kernel to 2.6 for Bluetooth or can it be ported on the 2.4 Kernel?

We have ordered Taylor's hub and we also have the breakout PCB.

Aim is to have Slovakian Flash-OFDM external USB modem (only works on T-Mobile in Slovak Republic), WiFi (for base, adhoc or client mode & NAT) and Bluetooth all on a GP2X portable. The 5Mbps mobile Internet modem has its own battery, obviously on the USB1.1 host it may only work up to 1Mbps or so..

 

[evol]

Do I really need to change Kernel to 2.6 for Bluetooth or can it be ported on the 2.4 Kernel?

We have ordered Taylor's hub and we also have the breakout PCB.

Aim is to have Slovakian Flash-OFDM external USB modem (only works on T-Mobile in Slovak Republic), WiFi (for base, adhoc or client mode & NAT) and Bluetooth all on a GP2X portable. The 5Mbps mobile Internet modem has its own battery, obviously on the USB1.1 host it may only work up to 1Mbps or so..

i dont really know what you want, but i think bluetooth is part of 2.4xx already if you want to use bluetooth on the gp2x the drivers would have to be ported
http://www.bluez.org/

 

[wattymage]

Do I really need to change Kernel to 2.6 for Bluetooth or can it be ported on the 2.4 Kernel?

http://www.bluez.org/

There are ARM debian here:
http://dir.filewatcher.com/d/Debian/arm/ad...deb.149058.html

Also the bluezlib and bluezutils seem to be the important bit. Googling there seems to have been initial cross compile for ARM in 2002 and also port of this stuff to the Sharp Zaurus Xscale (ex Intel, now Marvel ARM related)

The class2 V2 and ordinary V1.2 dongles should work off GP2X power to give 20m range peer to peer networking or 10m for keyboard, headset, mouse etc.

There are two keyboard routes. Some keyboards only do Bluetooth serial profile and the rest do Bluetooth HID (which mouse uses too). We need to decide which the GP2X can best use.

A Class1 V2 dongle might take too much power, it is 100m range.

A PC with Bluetooth and broadband can either Bridge, run Internet Sharing or a NAT proxy to allow the bluetooth enabled GP2X to access Internet, online games or Internet mulitplyer peer to peer games.

However I'm going to get the Bluetooth working on Ubuntu first to understand it (I have a regular phone Bluetooth headset appearing in Windows as a SoundCard and using it for Skype. Also Bluetooth Network to Nokia Phone works on Windows.). 14 Euro headset in Argos. Dongle 17 Euro in Argos for Class1 V2 (100m) and 24 Euro to 40 Euro for various Bluetooth dongles in Maplin.

I've still to figure out if any of them work on Ubuntu, never mind trying to get SW for GP2X.