Welcome to the Affix web site - Bluetooth Protocol Stack for Linux

Introduction, Overview & Features

Affix is a Bluetooth Protocol Stack for Linux developed by Nokia Research Center in Helsinki and released under GPL. See CREDITS.

Affix supports core Bluetooth protocols like HCI, L2CAP 1.1, L2CAP 1.2, RFCOMM, SDP and various Bluetooth profiles (see below)

Affix features:

• Affix support Bluetooth specification 1.1 and 1.2.
• Modular implementation.
• Socket interface to L2CAP 1.1, L2CAP 1.2 and RFCOMM protocols.
• Bluetooth module interface independence.
• SMP safe.
• Multiple Bluetooth devices support.
• Unified interface for all transport drivers. It makes it hardware independently.

Affix has been tested on the following platforms:

• i386.
• ARM (e.g. Compaq iPaq).
• PowerPC (e.g. iMac).
• Sparc.

However, other platforms capable of running Linux should also work.

Affix supports the following Bluetooth Profiles:

• General Access Profie
• Service Discovery Profile
• Serial Port Profile
• DialUp Networking Profile
• LAN Access Profile
• OBEX Object Push Profile
• OBEX File Transfer Profile
• PAN Profile
• FAX Profile
• HID Profile

Affix consists of following main packages:

• affix-kernel
• affix

affix-kernel provides kernel modules, which implements protocols core protocols and Bluetooth device drivers. Kernel modules can be used separately from the kernel or can be linked statically into the kernel.

affix provides control tools, libraries, and server daemons.

Additionally there are the following packages:

• pyaffix: Support for Python programming language.
• Ethereal plugin for helping debuging.

We successfully tested Affix for interoperability against a large amount of devices, e.g.:

• Nokia Bluetooth Phone 6210 with Bluetooth battery pack,
• Digianswer stack for Windows
• Compaq iPaq
• Bluetooth stack for Palm OS.
• Ericsson phones (T68).

For more information please refer to README from the Affix package.

While we believe that Affix is a useful piece of software, please bear in mind that it is not an official Nokia product, but a result of the research activity of Nokia Research Center. For further details, please read the files README, COPYING and LEGAL in the tar archive.

Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Dmitry Kasatkin, Carlos Chinea <carlos dot chinea at nokia dot com>
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