From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Alex Holland <ah160@york.ac.uk>
Cc: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] blue-fw not working for USB Belkin F8T001 in Gentoo Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 13:50:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073479827.2508.143.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFBFC34.3050509@york.ac.uk>
Hi Alex,
> I'm a Gentoo user, and my kernel and bluetooth modules are all compiled
> using the latest Gentoo Sources, 2.4.22-r2.
>
> When I was using 2.4.20-r9, hci_usb wouldn't see my USB bluetooth dongle
> until after bluefw had run. Since I upgraded to 2.4.22-r2, my dongle is
> detected as part of the standard USB bus scan during boot, although it
> brings up a lot of insmod errors. Further on during the boot, bluefw
> always fails, saying that my device has timed out. This leaves my
> bluetooth device invisible to hciconfig.
>
> Everything works fine if I boot into Windows XP and let the Belkin
> software load the firmware, then reboot into Linux without powering
> down. I still get the insmod errors, but bluefw brings up no error
> messages and all bluetooth things work wonderfully.
>
> I realise this may look more like a Gentoo query than a bluez query, but
> there don't seem to be many bluetooth users on the Gentoo forums, so I
> thought this might be the best place to ask.
I never got the bluefw working fine with my Broadcom based dongles. So I
wrote a kernel driver for loading the firmware. My -mh2 patch for 2.6.0
contains this bcm203x driver, but I haven't one for the 2.4 series.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-07 12:31 [Bluez-users] blue-fw not working for USB Belkin F8T001 in Gentoo Linux Alex Holland
2004-01-07 12:50 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-01-07 13:03 ` Alex Holland
2004-01-07 16:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-01-07 14:23 ` Marc Hansen
2004-01-07 14:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
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