Everything seems dandy right now. I re-started everything with a 
completely clean install of debian sid. (Which now has the new 
bluez-utils 3.1-3)

I will try to not bother anyone again. Seems like it was my unkempt 
distro install.

Thanks,

jpf

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> OK.. so I built from source 3.1 source last night and everything was 
>> going well.
>>
>> Today I come to find this pesky little error:
>>     % hciconfig -a
>>         ......
>>        before REOBOOT
>>        Can't read local name on hci0: Out of available memory space (or 
>> something close to that)
>>        after REBOOT:
>>        Can't read local name on hci0: Connection timed out (110)
>>
>>     ERROR ON CONSOLE:
>>        hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
>>
>>     RESULTS OF hcidump -X -V:
>>         HCI sniffer - Bluetooth packet analyzer ver 1.31
>>         device: hci0 snap_len: 1028 filter: 0xffffffff
>>         < HCI Command: Read Local Name (0x03|0x0014) plen 0
>>
>>
>> So I unplugged/replugged the USB  dongle
>>
>>    usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:0f.4-1 address 2
>>    hub.c: new USB device 00:0f.4-1, assigned address 3
>>
>> and NOW everything is working fine again.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>>     
>
> looks like a strange and broken adapter (what was "hciconfig -a" saying
> again) or simply a bad day.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
>
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