[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] bi-di BT-link between two 770s

[From: Johannes Eickhold]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:00 +0200, Johan Hedberg wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2005, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > Another use of Bluetooth could be connecting the 770 to a GPS receiver.
> > With its large screen it would make a nice moving map display, although
> > my primary use would be to simply transfer waypoints and track data to
> > and from a Garmin eTrex during cycling trips. I currently use an iPAQ
> > with Familiar Linux for that purpose, but might replace that with the
> > 770 if I can get it to work - currently I still wait for a
> > Bluetooth<->RS232 adapter (the eTrex only has a serial port).
> > 
> > I'm sure it can be done with root access, but making the same
> > functionality also available to users of the official firmware
> > certainly would be nice.
> 
> Searching for remote devices and creating outgoing RFCOMM connections
> (e.g. to serial port profile) doesn't require root privileges, so that
> should work just fine with the normal firmware.

As the wiki states on http://maemo.org/maemowiki/BluetoothGPS root
access is requiered to create the needed rfcommX device node. Following
that HowTo i successfully read NMEA data from my GPS mouse. I don't know
how to do this without such a device node.

Jonek
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