BNEP - Bluetooth kernel API
BNEP - Bluetooth kernel API
- Subject: BNEP - Bluetooth kernel API
- From: Cyberspice <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:18:21 +0000
Hi everyone,
I've just joined the list. My query is this. As far as I can tell
OS-X (even 10.3.8) doesn't BNEP, i.e. ethernet over bluetooth. This is
disappointing as I use BNEP and my Linux PC to extend our house LAN to
my PDA. I am now using a Mac as my every day workhorse and would like
to do the same with that [1]. I.e. extend the LAN to my PDA via it.
Wifi is not a viable alternative.
I am an experienced embedded and Linux developer so I thought that if
it's not supported I'll write the support so I've been researching
bluetooth and network drivers on OS X. From what I can see all the
bluetooth APIs are user domain and network drivers are written in the
kernel domain. This is a bit of a problem as basically what is needed
is a network controller driver that uses bluetooth for data transfer.
Diagrams in Apple's documentation show that Apple themselves support
both DUN and serial via bluetooth in the kernel. Also the L2CAP layer,
the one I need to use, is actually implemented in the kernel but is
supported by user land APIs.
So where do I find the kernel land APIs? Or is Apple inconsistent
between OS X versions and the only guaranteed ones are in user land.
In which case how do I do this? I'm reluctant to have a kernel driver
that uses a user land daemon to communicate with the bluetooth stack.
Any help would be useful.
Melanie
[1] Yes I'm a switcher. Well kind of. I used Macs for several years
professionally and then programmed them during my research at
University but have never owned one. OS X finally won me over.
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