Bluetooth Serial port?
Neil Schelly
neil at jenandneil.com
Tue Mar 28 11:10:01 EST 2006
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 10:50 am, Brian Chabot wrote:
> I got my new BT dongle running easy enough... it pairs fine with my BT
> GPS...
>
> ...The BT Serial port monitor sees the data...
>
> ...but anyone know how I can figure out which /dev/ it's using? I'm at a
> loss.
In my case, it's configured as follows in rfcomm.conf to use /dev/rfcomm0 as
the serial port. And the major/minor device numbers are below that
configuration. The binary rfcomm reads this file and binds the necessary
device to the bluetooth serial.
-N
neilmobile:/etc/bluetooth# cat rfcomm.conf
#
# RFCOMM configuration file.
#
# $Id: rfcomm.conf,v 1.1 2002/10/07 05:58:18 maxk Exp $
#
rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 01:CC:20:61:37:15;
channel 1;
comment "Treo 650";
}
neilmobile:/etc/bluetooth# ls -al /dev/rfcomm0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root dialout 216, 0 Jul 9 2005 /dev/rfcomm0
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