Configuring a Bluetooth GPS receiver on Gentoo was pretty straight forward for me.
\nThis assumes that you already have the bluetooth stack up and running on your Gentoo box.<\/p>\n
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\nScanning …
\n00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A iBT-GPS
\n# sdptool browse 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A<\/em>
\nBrowsing 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A …
\nService Name: SPP slave
\nService Description: Bluetooth SPP V1.23
\nService RecHandle: 0x10000
\nService Class ID List:
\n“Serial Port” (0x1101)
\nProtocol Descriptor List:
\n“L2CAP” (0x0100)
\n“RFCOMM” (0x0003)
\nChannel: 1
\nLanguage Base Attr List:
\ncode_ISO639: 0x656e
\nencoding: 0x6a
\nbase_offset: 0x100<\/p>\n
\nConnected \/dev\/rfcomm0 to 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A on channel 1
\nPress CTRL-C for hangup<\/p>\n