Bluetooth on the WL500g? Yes!

[bramfm]

We (Philips Semiconductors) are using the WL500g as test vehicle for our MIPS systems to verify code. During these exercises we ported the Affix Bluetooth stack to the WL500g. The actual code is too big to fit in the current firmware (above 4MB), so you need an external flash disk. Since also a USB Bluetooth dongle is needed, you need a compatible USB hub.

For more information go to:
Affix on WL500g

Please read the limitations:

• Binaries are statically compiled, so larger than actually needed.
• A specific libc.so.6 file is needed simply because the WL500g version is too limited
• PAN interface seems not to be routed through the WL500g. As a BT PAN client it is possible to access the internal webpage of the WL500g. When a tcpdump is made the box claims that “source route failed”. I have no clue yet what is causing this problem.

The last problem is causing me headaches. I haven't found a solution yet.

Last remark, the code is based on affix version 2.1.2 .

[Oleg]

Good work. Just checked this. The code could be easily be stripped to 2.5MB by removing debug info and development libraries/headers. Also, try replacing glibc with uclibc.

[spekanet]

The bt toolsuite seems to be using the /lib/ld.so.1 which is not present in the firmware from wl500g.dyndns.org. How did you do to use the affix binary stack with it ?
By the way, the usb flash drive mounts under /tmp/harddisk and not /mnt/usbfs on my wl500g.

Good work. Just checked this. The code could be easily be stripped to 2.5MB by removing debug info and development libraries/headers. Also, try replacing glibc with uclibc.

[fastclick]

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to get bluetooth to work for several days.
I have the precompiled affix stack and don't get futher.
Can somebody post a link to a precompiled bluez-Stack.
(Or share his expericence in compiling affix/Bluez and get it to work)

Thanx in advance.

FastClick

[cunami]

Hi everyone!

Would be interesting to know is there any progress about using BT on WL500g? The most interesting thing would be to make BT devices be able to access WAN. I have USB BT dongle, USB-flash, USB hub, WL500g and PDA – all required hardware and would like to access WAN from my PDA. Maybe I could be useful for doing some tests as well? ;-) I think to have BT support on router would be really great thing, please, everyone, don’t stop working on this case! ;-)

Greetings,
Cunami

[brenosabino]

hi guys...
i am new on this forum and i have a wl-500g router... i never modified his firmware other than the official... now what i want to know is if is possible to plug a bluetooth dongle in the wl-500g usb port... and if i really need a usb hub and a flash drive. and if its possible i would like to use gnubox with it.. this program can make me use the pc internet connection on my nokia 6630 via bluetooth.. i will post more information later but here is the link to the tutorial and the forum of gnubox.
Tutorial (windows) - http://web.singnet.com.sg/~kinston/B...20Internet.htm
Tutorial (linux) - http://arnold.homelinux.com/tiki-rea...p?articleId=40
Forum - http://www.symbianos.org/yabbse/index.php?board=2
byee!
srry for my bad english

[bramfm]

Good tips,

I will compile a new version with --nodebug enabled.

[Oleg]

You should also use
strip --strip-unneeded for kernel modules &
strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment for libraries/apps

[bramfm]

Originally posted by Oleg
You should also use
strip --strip-unneeded for kernel modules &
strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment for libraries/apps

Gee, I didn't know this would save so much space. Thanks Oleg!

[bramfm]

Originally posted by Oleg
You should also use
strip --strip-unneeded for kernel modules &
strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment for libraries/apps

I am sorry Oleg, but stripping the kernel modules results in many "unresolved symbols"

Stripping the libs + apps is OK!

[Snigel]

Wow, soon the wl500g is going to be so nice.
wlan, router, bluetooth, packet shaping

Hope you guys solve the PAN-issue.

[justwords]

AVM (Berlin) has managed to include a mrouter software in its bluefritz dsl bluetooth accesspoint so you can use standard symbian phones like nokia 3650 or Sony Ericsson P900 for browsing the web without using gprs or using a pc as a software router. this would be great to do with the wl-500g as well! mrouter is the software that makes a ppp/ tcp/ip connection with a pc or mac when syncing contacts etc. and can also be used to access internet for browsers and email etc.

[xlephant]

hi guys,

what is the status of this projects (http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?s=&threadid=212 and http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?s=&threadid=262)? it would be very nice if 500g start Gatekeeper (http://opengatekeeper.sourceforge.net/) from a usb-stick(or usb-hdd), and start a conection to your bluetooth phone(e.g.s60 phones) over the "audio gateway" profile.

the result is a mobile ip phone.

does everbody think that this is possible(for cpu of 500g and the other hardware)?


@oleg

thx a lot for all your hard work!did you already tought about donations?

[xlephant]

see also:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?s=&threadid=314

[bramfm]

I noticed that the file you can download from my site causes "segmentation errors" with the latest version of Oleg's firmware. Therefore an update can be found on the page. Also, a very pleasant side-effect, libc has been replaced by ulibc in the package making it much smaller (still the wl500g build-in libc is not compatible with affix). In fact the /affix-release/lib directory only has to contain libc.so.6 since the binaries are compiled statically.

Attached you can find the new version.

PS can someone copy this to the wiki pages, I do not understand it how to use it, I am just a simple "ing" .

It is possible to run Bluetooth on the WL500g! This can be done via 
the USB interface in combination with a USB dongle running the Affix stack.
The following dongles have been tested:

    * MSI
    * 3COM
    * TDK

For enabling Bluetooth on the WL500g the following is needed:

    * a WL500g ;-)
    * Precompiled binary, see attachement
    * A USB flash disk
    * A USB BT dongle
    * A USB Hub (to be able to connect the USB BT & flashdisk simultaneously
       to the WL500g)

Extract the affix-release.zip file and be sure to preserve the paths, it will 
look as follows:
	
	

/affix-release
├───bin
│   └───kernel
│       ├───drivers
│       │   └───affix
│       └───net
│           └───affix
├───etc
│   ├───affix
│   ├───devfs
│   │   └───conf.d
│   ├───modutils
│   └───pcmcia
├───include
│   └───openobex
├───lib
├───share
│   └───aclocal
└───usr
    └───include
        └───affix

	
On the USB disk make a directory for incoming and outgoing Obex file transfer
files:

mkdir /incoming

Be shure to insert a USB BT dongle in the box and start bluetooth services via
telnet (see chupa forum how to enable telnet), by issuing the following 
command:

/mnt/usbfs/affix-release/bin/start_bt

Everything should start up now. Test the affix stack by entering the following
command in a Telnet session:

btctl discovery

Known limitations:

    * Binaries are statically compiled, so larger than actually needed.
    * A specific libc.so.6 file is needed simply because the WL500g version is 
       too limited
    * PAN interface seems not to be routed through the WL500g. As a BT PAN 
       client it is possible to access the internal webpage of the WL500g. When
       a tcpdump is made the box claimes that “source route failed”. I have no
       clue yet what is causing this problem