Re: [NTLK] Air2Net BT2000

From: Eckhart Köppen (eck1001_at_gmx.net)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 04:16:51 PDT


On Sat, 1 May 2004 11:19:48 +0200, Daniel Padilla wrote:
> CSR goes for Cambridge Silicon Radio, they seem to be one of the
> biggest BT module makers. They use a protocol that isn't defined in the BT
> specification, BCSP, for BlueCore Serial Port. That's one of the things
> the newton doesn't understand.

BCSP is actually not that difficult to implement, so if there is enough
demand, I could add that to Blunt.

> I'm preparing a manual to make those card work. It involves having
> access to a windows laptop and a linux laptop (knoppix will do).
> For changing the BCSP mode, a program called PSKey is used from linux.
> Then, depending on the card, a program called Oxprom must be used.

Now this would of course totally rock :)! It would make things much
easier, and hopefully make most cards usable with Blunt right away,
especially the cheap Billionton and Conceptronic cards.

Eckhart

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