Re: Bluetooth Support

> From stu@spacehopper.org Tue Oct 30 19:32:56 2018
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
> Subject: Re: Bluetooth Support
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:24:04 +0000 (UTC)
>
> On 2018-10-30, Marco Menne <marco.menne17@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I installed OpenBSD 6.4 on an old iMac from 2010 and nearly everything
> > works fine. The sound is cruel but this is a minor problem.
> > The Apple has a Bluetooth keyboard and I do not find a way to get it
> > working. I read in some forum that Bluetooth is not supported in OpenBSD.
> > Is this true?
> > I can use an USB-Keyboard, of course, but the Apple keyboard is fine and it
> > would be a little bit sad, if I had to change to an usb one.
> >
> > Greetings, Marco
> > - - -
> > Marco Menne
> > marco.menne17@gmail.com
> > GnuPG-Public-Key:
> > https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x96A01AB59F6F7ECF
> >
>
> AIUI the firmware on some Apples does actually present a Bluetooth
> keyboard as a standard keyboard, but I suspect this one will be too
> old for this and would need an OS that has its own Bluetooth support.
>
>

Way back in 2012, I ran OpenBSD on a 2008 MacBook Pro with a Bluetooth
keyboard and it presented as USB and worked fine.

I ran it for a while actually before I realized and had to ask myself
how in the world this even works.

Marco, you can test this easily without installing simply by checking to
see if you can type at the bootloader prompt.