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rkomar · 01-11-2026, 01:12 PM

Packages from Debian Lenny are compatible with these devices. Can you use the BlueZ stack from that distro instead?

Way back in 2012, I installed that version of debian using qemu. The install ISO I saved contains bluez-3.36. If you are really desperate, you could try doing the same thing, and then use that emulated system to build source packages from newer versions of debian. It would be a significant amount of work, though. I vaguely remember that @LoneTech uploaded the qemu images and scripts he used back then for building software. Perhaps you can find the pre-built images somewhere rather than build it yourself from scratch.

01-11-2026, 01:12 PM	#19
rkomar Wizard Posts: 3,108 Karma: 18924009 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	Packages from Debian Lenny are compatible with these devices. Can you use the BlueZ stack from that distro instead? Way back in 2012, I installed that version of debian using qemu. The install ISO I saved contains bluez-3.36. If you are really desperate, you could try doing the same thing, and then use that emulated system to build source packages from newer versions of debian. It would be a significant amount of work, though. I vaguely remember that @LoneTech uploaded the qemu images and scripts he used back then for building software. Perhaps you can find the pre-built images somewhere rather than build it yourself from scratch. Last edited by rkomar; 01-11-2026 at 01:30 PM.