Bluetooth on Atheros AW-NB100H, no devices shown after scan.

Thme · 2012-12-22 02:52:18

I bought a halfmini pci card with the atheros chipset for adding bluetooth to my netbook the chipsets are
are AR1111 + AR1005. AR1005 being the bluetooth side which shows up as usb device and so far nothing is turning up any errors yet when i try to scan for devices to pair with using hcitool or blueman nothing shows and on the other side when set to visable my android also doen't detect the netbook. Wifi/wlan works fine. no issues there. I seem to be able to manipulate settings and modes for that part of the card with the hci... commmands as well as rfkill yet nothing seems to make a difference. Also the bios registers it fine as well. I have a usb dongle that I know works as I was previously using it for my bluetooth needs so as far as my setup with bluetooth everything seems to be in order. I've gathered a lot of info on the hardware but there's little info out on the net about this particular internal card. Heres the output(trimmed down to the specifics relating to the device):
The following was used to get this information:
hwinfo --pci (and --usb)
lsmod
lsusb
lspci -vnn
rfkill list all
jounalctl -n
iwconfig
ifconfig

hwinfo --pci (specifically the pci card)

24: PCI 200.0: 0280 Network controller
  [Created at pci.319]
  Unique ID: y9sn._O8iZVphHCE
  Parent ID: hoOk.4aTjYoti5oD
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:02:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros Network controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x0037 
  SubVendor: pci 0x1a3b 
  SubDevice: pci 0x2100 
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "ath9k"
  Driver Modules: "ath9k", "ath9k"
  Device File: wlan0
  Memory Range: 0xf9f80000-0xf9ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf9f70000-0xf9f7ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 18 (no events)
  HW Address: dc:85:de:82:89:67
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd00000037sv00001A3Bsd00002100bc02sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ath9k is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath9k"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)

#hwinfo --usb (specifically the bluetooth entry)

05: USB 00.0: 11500 Bluetooth Device
  [Created at usb.122]
  Unique ID: wn1q.caWM9jujblA
  Parent ID: 2XnU.CCckIHJirFC
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0
  SysFS BusID: 5-2:1.0
  Hardware Class: bluetooth
  Model: "Atheros Bluetooth USB Host Controller"
  Hotplug: USB
  Vendor: usb 0x0cf3 "Atheros Communications, Inc."
  Device: usb 0x3008 "Bluetooth USB Host Controller"
  Revision: "0.01"
  Serial ID: "Alaska Day 2006"
  Driver: "btusb"
  Driver Modules: "btusb"
  Speed: 12 Mbps
  Module Alias: "usb:v0CF3p3008d0001dcE0dsc01dp01icE0isc01ip01in00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: btusb is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe btusb"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #4 (Hub)

#lsmod (excluding some totally unrelated modules from my knowedge)

btusb                  12341  0 
rfcomm                 34304  8 
arc4                    2008  2 
bnep                    9210  2 
ath9k                  99149  0 
ath9k_common            2097  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              356012  2 ath9k_common,ath9k
ath                    15362  3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211              434959  1 ath9k
cfg80211              180203  3 ath,ath9k,mac80211
iTCO_wdt                5224  0 
bluetooth             195418  22 bnep,btusb,rfcomm
rfkill                 16029  5 cfg80211,bluetooth,asus_wmi
pci_hotplug            22989  1 asus_wmi
usbhid                 37196  0 
lpc_ich                11346  0 
crc16                   1360  2 ext4,bluetooth
uhci_hcd               23501  0 
ahci                   21393  3 
libahci                21003  1 ahci
libata                169219  2 ahci,libahci
ehci_hcd               42393  0 
usbcore               153813  5 btusb,uhci_hcd,uvcvideo,ehci_hcd,usbhid
usb_common               955  1 usbcore

#lsusb

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0cf3:3008 Atheros Communications, Inc. 

#lspci

02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 0037 (rev 01)

#hciconfig 

hci0:	Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
	BD Address: DC:85:DE:82:82:1E  ACL MTU: 1022:8  SCO MTU: 183:5
	UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
	RX bytes:575 acl:0 sco:0 events:37 errors:0
	TX bytes:1381 acl:0 sco:0 commands:35 errors:0

#ifconfig

wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether dc:85:de:82:89:67  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

#iwconfig

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=16 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on

#rfkill list all

0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
5: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

#journalctl -n

bluetoothd[334]: bluetoothd[334]: Stopping discovery
bluetoothd[334]: Stopping discovery
sudo[27501]: maat : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/maat ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/su
sudo[27501]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by maat(uid=0)
su[27506]: (to root) maat on /dev/pts/1
su[27506]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by maat(uid=0)
bluetoothd[334]: bluetoothd[334]: Discovery session 0x7f81c3c85430 with :1.25 activated
bluetoothd[334]: Discovery session 0x7f81c3c85430 with :1.25 activated
bluetoothd[334]: bluetoothd[334]: Stopping discovery
bluetoothd[334]: Stopping discovery

Oh found this as well with "hciconfig -a"

hci0:	Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
	BD Address: DC:85:DE:82:82:1E  ACL MTU: 1022:8  SCO MTU: 183:5
	UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
	RX bytes:1010 acl:0 sco:0 events:117 errors:0
	TX bytes:1829 acl:0 sco:0 commands:100 errors:0
	Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0d 0xfe 0xd8 0x7f 0x7b 0x87
	Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
	Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF 
	Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT 
	Name: 'Asus1018p-0'
	Class: 0x580100
	Service Classes: Capturing, Object Transfer, Telephony
	Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
	HCI Version: 3.0 (0x5)  Revision: 0x102
	LMP Version: 4.0 (0x6)  Subversion: 0x1
	Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)

Last edited by Thme (2012-12-22 03:05:43)

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#1 2012-12-22 02:52:18

Bluetooth on Atheros AW-NB100H, no devices shown after scan.

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