Fortuna Clip-on Bluetooth GPS for the Sharp Zaurus
By:
* Zaurus C760; original 1.20 JP ROM
* Ambicom Air2Net BT2000-CF Bluetooth CF card
* Fortuna Clip-on Bluetooth GPS
* Bluez Bluetooth driver 2.3-2.4.18b binary for Sharp 3.10 ROM
This setup is mostly a commentary on Colin Pinkney's instructions (here),
as described under the heading "Setting up an internet connection
to a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone". I had to reset the Zaurus
a few times to get it working, but overall the process wasn't too frustrating.
It took about 4 hours - hopefully less for someone reading this!
When creating the new PPP-IRDA entry via the Network screens, I only
added a useful value for the Name field. I modified the IRDA* file in
/etc/ppp/peers to be like
the BT-LINUX file in that same directory:
/dev/rfcomm0
noipdefault
460800
usepeerdns
defaultroute
remotename IRDA1069634798
The "sdptool browse" command displayed the MAC address for
the GPS unit but not the channel, so I just used "1" for the
channel.
Here is my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf, which based on a posting at Zaurus
DevNet:
rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device - get from 'hcitool scan'
device xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Description of the connection
comment "ClipOn-BTGPS";
}
qpeGPS works OK for me with this setup.