Bug#355497: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#355497: bluez-utils: hid2hci --tohid does not work

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:53:37PM +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> On 24/07/06 13:19, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> > Could you try with newest bluez-utils package? (3.1-2, but 3.1-3 is imminent)
> > If it still doesn't work we should talk to upstream and try to figure this out.
> 
> with 3.1-2:
> 
> # hid2hci --tohci
> Switching device 046d:c704 to HCI mode was successful
> 
> # hid2hci --tohid
> No devices in HID mode found
> 
> (by the way, I think this error message is wrong - I'm trying to switch
> _to_ HID mode, so it should say "No devices in HCI mode found" - unless
> I'm misinterpreting it, I should check with upstream if that's intentional)
> 
> 
> On 28/11/05 19:28, Marcel Holtmann mentioned something relevant on the
> bluez-users mailinglist, see:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=18102606
> 
> >> There are two problems I wanted to ask about:
> >> 1. The dongle doesnt reset to HID mode when system is shut off ... so I have 
> >> no ability to use the keyboard in grub! I need to write a script to reset it 
> >> to hid mode when the system is shut off. How can i do this? The hid2hci 
> >> program supposedly provides an option to switch back to hid mode ... but it 
> >> doesn't work. I get the error "No devices in hid mode found" (obviously!).
> >  
> > we don't know the magic sequence to switch it back into HID mode.
> 
> 
> I'm assuming the situation hasn't changed in the mean time.

indeed, ideally hid2hci might switch to HCI only devices which can switch back
to HID (and do it nevertheless if --force is present)

comments/ideas?

filippo
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