Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page 3 Table 1.2 |
Frequency range of Bluetooth HAS BEEN CHANGED to "2.4 to 2.483 GHz", from "2.5 GHz". |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 48 Last sentence |
"Here is a sample of th output..." NOW READS: "Here is a sample of the output..." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 57 2/3 down the page |
On must Linux distributions, ... should be: On most Linux distributions, ... |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 129 First paragraph, last sentence |
"Mesa also sells the SFF IDE cables..." For consistancy with prior usage, should be: "Mesa also sells the SFF-IDE cables..." |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 135 2nd line of first sentence |
...there is an opportunity here for editing filest. should be: ...there is an opportunity here for editing files. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 182 last line of last paragraph |
the url: http://www.bluetoothsig.org/assigned-numbers/baseband.htm should be: https://www.bluetooth.org/foundry/assignnumb/document/baseband |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 185 & 186 |
The reference for the BlueZ web site HAS BEEN CHANGED to http://www.bluez.org/, though the old URL will continue to work. |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 190 Installing the BlueZ Utilities |
As of version 2.7, the BlueZ project has merged bluez-pan and bluez-sdp into bluez-utils. The bluez-libs package now contains the libsdp library, which used to be part of bluez-sdp. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 192 Table 7-6 Description of Command "hciconfig hci0 up" |
"Normally, in hcid does this for you..." NOW READS: "Normally, hcid does this for you..." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 196 Service Discovery |
The sdpd and sdptool programs are now part of the bluez-utils package, as of version 2.7. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 201 1st paragraph, 4th sentence |
"...rfcomm bind as shown in Example 7-6." NOW READS: "...rfcomm bind as shown in Example 7-5." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 204 PPP Networking |
The dund program is now part of the bluez-utils package, as of version 2.7. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 207 Personal Area Networking |
The pand program is now part of the bluez-utils package, as of version 2.7. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 211 Printing over Bluetooth |
The CUPS driver is now part of the bluez-utils package, as of version 2.7. It can be configured by giving the --with-cups option to the configure script when compiling bluez-utils. If you run Debian Unstable, it is available from the bluez-cups package. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 211 Connecting input devices |
Input devices are now catered for in the mainstream release of bluez-utils, since version 2.7, via the 'hidd' daemon. This requires a patch to be applied to the kernel, though, which can be downloaded from http://www.bluez.org/. Run the HID server as root: # hidd --server Then connection to your input device # hidd --connect AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF Change AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF for the Bluetooth address of your keyboard or mouse. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 243 3rd paragraph, 4th sentence |
"...so you can use the phone onlwith them." NOW READS: "...so you can use the phone only with them." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 253 Section: CDMA Phone with Data Cable, 1st paragraph, last sentence |
"...appears as a serial port named /dev/ttyACM0." "named" was previously italized with "/dev/ttyACM0". "named" NOW APPEARS as regular text. |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2004 |