new 1.2 dongles

Bluez-users Marco Trudel 2 participants 2 messages Apr 9, 2005 Bluetooth drivers

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Marco Trudel

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2005-04-09 11:30 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello

I just bought these dongles:
- ednet btVer 1.2 (class2, 40 meters) Firmware 20.3.009
- acer btVer 1.2 (class1, 100 meters) Firmware 10.3.009

Both work just fine with bluez and are from Broadcom Corporation.

Marcel, as much as i've seen, you no longer have a list of supported devices... so i think you don't need any data, right?

I actually do have a question: I read much more about csr dongles than broadcom's in the list. Are broadcom's known to be bader or are there other disadvantages? Is the firmware updateable too? I'm a little bit worried that there's such a big version-difference of the firmware...

regards
Marco

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Marcel Holtmann

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2005-04-09 12:03 UTC #1 lore raw

Hi Marco,

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I just bought these dongles:
- ednet btVer 1.2 (class2, 40 meters) Firmware 20.3.009
- acer btVer 1.2 (class1, 100 meters) Firmware 10.3.009
Both work just fine with bluez and are from Broadcom Corporation.
Marcel, as much as i've seen, you no longer have a list of supported devices... so i think you don't need any data, right?

I still maintain the features document and I think about moving everything into a database. So please send in "hciconfig -a" and the content of /proc/bus/usb/devices.

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I actually do have a question: I read much more about csr dongles than broadcom's in the list. Are broadcom's known to be bader or are there other disadvantages?

I think that Broadcom/Zeevo is catching up, but actually at the moment the CSR chips are way ahead of everything else.

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Is the firmware updateable too? I'm a little bit worried that there's such a big version-difference of the firmware...

It maybe is upgradeable, but I don't know how. Don't worry so much about the version thing. I still don't know what these values actually mean, because the decoding is derived from the Widcomm stack version display. Broadcom was never helpful when it comes to Linux support while CSR always helped out.

Regards

Marcel