Re: [Gumstix-users] bluetooth serial connection (without console)

[Kevin F. <ke...@fo...>]

Sorry to clutter the list...

I found what I needed on this page.
http://www.gumstix.net/Hardware/view/Expansion-boards/GPSstix-and-audioStix/112.html

Hope this helps someone in the future.

Kevin

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Kevin Fonner

ke...@fo...
http://kevin.fonner.net/
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961



Kevin Fonner wrote:
> I have a Verdex Pro BT with bluetooth working but not exactly how I need 
> it.  Currently when I connect from a another computer via bluetooth 
> rfcomm0 gets created and I get a login prompt to the gumstix on the 
> other computer.  As I understand it rfcomm0 is configured to act as a 
> login console but what I need is just a unused serial connection that I 
> can point my own app on the gumstix so that it can talk to the other 
> computer.  I found a reference to someone using rfcomm to create an 
> rfcomm1 port to use but when I tried this I got several errors when I 
> connected to it.
>
> Anybody now how to do this or an alternative way to get a bluetooth 
> serial connection between the gumstix and another computer without the 
> serial console.
>
> Thanks!
> Kevin
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