Bluetooth on the WL500g? Yes!

[bramfm]

Speaking of Bluetooth -

Why use Affix (http://affix.sourceforge.net/) and not the "official" BlueZ (http://www.bluez.org/) stack?

And, yes, I'd welcome Bluetooth on the router ;-)

To be honest this is a historical thing. When we started to use bluetooth for our ARM based devices we needed the PAN profile. At that time only affix supported the PAN profile. A second reason is that the affix stack compiles much easier for embedded systems.

[Styno]

I've added a WIKI page for the Affix Bluetooth stack here: http://wiki.wl500g.info/index.php/PackageAffix

If you have more info (or remarks) for this page, please add it to the page. If you don't have the time or knowledge on howto edit WIKI pages, please PM the info to me and I'll post it there.

[chipanzee]

great.

Just wondering if it is possible to do it in a 'reverse' way about audio profile. That is, using my t68i as the mic/speaker for linux. Then I can find a voip port to mipsel and turn my wireless cellphone to a indoor wireless phone for voip :-)

I just bought a WL500G because of its usb port as I can attach a usb sound device(with mic/headset port) so I can run speakfreely on it to have a closed circuit 'broadcast' system through IP.

[hugo]

would you like to post your config.mk from the affix-kernel package and Makefile so I can try to make the affix for latest firmwares?

TIA

[xlephant]

hi guys,

does anybody know if there is a way to use the bluetooth function as a internet ap for a pocket pc?

thx a lot

[hugo]

hi guys,

does anybody know if there is a way to use the bluetooth function as a internet ap for a pocket pc?

thx a lot

My bluez stack does this using the PAN profile.
I'm trying to do the same using RFcomm, so that phones could use it too. Look for my blez stack, it will work for pan

[xlephant]

hi all,

i want to run the wl500g under oleq 1.9.2.7-3b.

now i want to start the affix bluetooth stack, but i think there must be something wrong, see here:

[root@myrouter bin]$ ./start_bt
Using /mnt/usbfs/affix-release/bin/kernel/net/affix/affix.o
Using /mnt/usbfs/affix-release/bin/kernel/drivers/affix/affix_usb.o
Using /mnt/usbfs/affix-release/bin/kernel/net/affix/affix_rfcomm.o
Using /mnt/usbfs/affix-release/bin/kernel/net/affix/affix_pan.o
./start_bt: 9: btctl: not found
./start_bt: 11: btctl: not found
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
interface pan0 does not exist!
./start_bt: 19: btctl: not found
./start_bt: 18: btsrv: not found
./start_bt: 20: btctl: not found

before i start the stack i start this:

[root@myrouter root]$ mount -o bind /tmp /mnt
[root@myrouter root]$ ln -s /tmp/harddisk /mnt/usbfs

can anybody help me? thx a lot...

[hugo]

On 3c revision, I think I have better result. Will try tonight and report here.

[xlephant]

hi guys,

is anybody here who can precompile the affix stack for the new firmware?
im not so good in linux.

or how you run affix stack on the new oleq firmware?

see my problem here:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=...ighlight=affix

would be so nice if someone could help me. thx a lot....

[Plesa]

Please have anyone compiled affix or BlueZ for new firmware.Thanks

[rexster]

imho,
bt should not be in same room with wifi.
because, it use (almost) same frequency as wifi and will cause interferences.

i had an experience where i try to connect imac with bt keyboard+mouse
to a wireless router in the same room in about 2 meter distance.

and, it does NOT connect!
i have to try many frequency/channel and finally found a channel that wifi can connect.

even that it's connected, when i put the imac to another room across the house
(about 30meters) the signal drops significantly.
usually at this distance the signal should be very strong.

especially, i was using senao with 200mw power.
at another place (with no bt) i test it over 50m still got strong signal.

[Plesa]

BT and WiFi used the same frequency it's correct but it could be in the same room. I use BT class I II together with WiFi without problems.
I use BT v1.2 (SiliconWave), which is little bit interference resistant, because use another type of modulation.

[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

[cooper.zl]

Hi all,

I have the same problem as is posted by xlephant! Can somebody help me (help us)? I need to share internet provided by my ASUS WL-500g using bluetooth to my Nokia 6681 phone. Thx.

There is 1 difference - I completly rewrite all references from '/mnt/usbfs/' to '/opt'. But result is the same - ./start_bt: 9: btctl: not found, ... and so on.