Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD

Dan writes "Maksim Yevmenkin announces that another "bluetooth" engineering release is available for download. This release features several major changes and includes support for H4 UART and H2 USB transport layers, Host Controller Interface (HCI), Link Layer Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), Bluetooth sockets layer and more. Maksim has subsequently provided followup patches for this release."

What about IRComm?

[glenstar]

Bluetooth is great and all... if you happen to have a Bluetooth machine and Bluetooth peripherals. What I want to know is: when (if it doesn't already exist in CVS somewhere) can we see a fully functional IR stack? Part of the reason that I had to switch my corporate laptop away from FreeBSD is that I was not able to use the IR port on my phone while on the road.

Re:What about IRComm?

[eht]

Except every piece of linux software works as is with linuc compatibility mode on, so thats all linux plus all freebsd, seems to me it isn't dead.

Re:What about IRComm?

[jquirke]

That's odd. I've been able to make data calls, send SMS etc, with my Nokia 8210 mobile phone over InfraRed with FreeBSD 4.x. Actually that's very odd for an OS without IR support.

[/sarcasm]

Use the user-land software "birda" available in the package and ports collection.

Re:*BSD is dying

[Masque]

Yes, let us indeed keep to the facts and the numbers, but let us not omit one of the more important numbers.

100,000 copies of a BSD-based OS were purchased, not downloaded but actually paid for on the 23rd of August this year.

That OS is Mac OS X, and it seems to be very much alive, don't you think?

Re:*BSD is dying

[Masque]

Better than being GNU here.

Re:*BSD is dying

[leviramsey]

But if you're GNU, someone wants you [slashdot.org].