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flammenwurfer

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Registered: 2009-02-04

Posts: 118

usb bluetooth dongle won't work

I have one a bluetooth mouse I would like to use and also a mini usb bluetooth dongle.  It has a cambridge silicon chip in it.  I've followed the wiki on connecting a bluetooth mouse and it still doesn't work.

I have another bluetooth adapter with a broadcom chip in it and after following the wiki it works.

When using the cambridge silicon adapter doing "hciconfig -a hci0" gives me this with an error at the end

hci0:    Type: USB
    BD Address: 00:1F:81:00:02:50 ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 180:1
    UP RUNNING PSCAN
    RX bytes:1025 acl:0 sco:0 events:36 errors:0
    TX bytes:406 acl:0 sco:0 commands:52 errors:17
    Features: 0xff 0x3e 0x0d 0x76 0x80 0x01 0x00 0x80
    Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
    Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
    Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Can't read local name on hci0: Connection timed out (110)

I've seen posts of people with the same cambridge silicon chip that have bluetooth working though.  Am i doing something wrong?  Is there a trick with this chip that I don't know about? 

PS.  The reason I don't just use the one that works is because it is rather large and I'm using this on a netbook.  I'd much rather use the tiny one.

mole

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 21

Re: usb bluetooth dongle won't work

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13665
Maybe bluez-4.40 will help you too. Currently a lot of people have similar problems.

Last edited by mole (2009-05-26 13:15:43)

flammenwurfer

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Registered: 2009-02-04

Posts: 118

Re: usb bluetooth dongle won't work

Is bluez 4.40 available?  I don't see it in the repos or AUR.

mole

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 21

Re: usb bluetooth dongle won't work

It's available from http://www.bluez.org/. You can wait until it is in the extra repo or create your own package using ABS: Just copy /var/abs/extra/bluez/ to some working directory and edit the PKGBUILD. These are the changes I made:

$ diff /var/abs/extra/bluez/PKGBUILD  PKGBUILD
3c3
< pkgver=4.39
---
> pkgver=4.40
23c23
< md5sums=('3f7671a3939eabbc261d3a92da83445f'
---
> md5sums=('2478d92596be2aa2642b1f070343e108'
65c65
<   install -m644 scripts/bluetooth.rules "${pkgdir}/etc/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth-serial.rules" || return 1
---
>   install -m644 scripts/bluetooth-serial.rules "${pkgdir}/etc/udev/rules.d/97-bluetooth-serial.rules" || return 1

flammenwurfer

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Registered: 2009-02-04

Posts: 118

Re: usb bluetooth dongle won't work

Thanks mole!