[Bluez-users] Key step in bluetonium setup, bcm203x does not load firmware

[Bluez-users] Key step in bluetonium setup, bcm203x does not load firmware

[gonzalo briceno]

I would like to know if you have instructions on
getting the bluetonium to work with linux.  I have
searched a lot of places and I know exactly what the
problem is.  It is bet summarized in sourceforge as
follows:
"
The Broadcom Blutonium devices need a firmware
download before they will work like any other H:2
compatible Bluetooth USB device. The bcm203x requests
the firmware files BCM2033-MD.hex and BCM2033-FW.bin
and loads them into the device. After this procedure
the device will disconnect from the USB bus and
reconnects as a standard H:2 device which will be
recognized by the hci_usb driver. The firmware files
are distributed in the bluez-firmware package.

An alternate way of loading the firmware onto such a
device is the bcm203x program from the bluez-utils
package, because the bcm203x kernel driver is only a
Linux 2.6 feature. It is necessary to install hotplug
for this. 
"

I installed bluez-firmware-1.0 and bluez-utils-2.9,
however, the problem is not fixed.  When I look at
/proc/bus/usb/devices the bluetonium chip is listed
but sure enough, it does not load the usb_hci module.

Any help? 

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Re: [Bluez-users] Key step in bluetonium setup, bcm203x does not load firmware

[Luiz Fernando Capitulino]

  Hello Gonzalo,

gonzalo briceno wrote:

 > I installed bluez-firmware-1.0 and bluez-utils-2.9,
 > however, the problem is not fixed.  When I look at
 > /proc/bus/usb/devices the bluetonium chip is listed
 > but sure enough, it does not load the usb_hci module.
 >
 > Any help?

  We had the some problem here (but the device is different).

  On our setup, we copied the firmware files to:

/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

  and reloaded the kernel module.

  I'm not certain if it is the right thing to do, but
it worked.

  Hope it helps,

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Re: [Bluez-users] Key step in bluetonium setup, bcm203x does not load firmware

[gonzalo briceno]

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Luiz,
 
You are completely right.  I followed your instructions and my Broadcom Bluetonium (bcm203x module) based chip is working.  I hope I did not gloss over any section of information although I am almost positive that I did not.  Anyways, any one having this problem has to simply download bluez-firmware and copy the broadcom files onto /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.  
Thank you so much.

Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

Hello Gonzalo,

gonzalo briceno wrote:

> I installed bluez-firmware-1.0 and bluez-utils-2.9,
> however, the problem is not fixed. When I look at
> /proc/bus/usb/devices the bluetonium chip is listed
> but sure enough, it does not load the usb_hci module.
>
> Any help?

We had the some problem here (but the device is different).

On our setup, we copied the firmware files to:

/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

and reloaded the kernel module.

I'm not certain if it is the right thing to do, but
it worked.

Hope it helps,

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino


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Re: [Bluez-users] Key step in bluetonium setup, bcm203x does not load firmware

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Gonzalo,

> You are completely right.  I followed your instructions and my
> Broadcom Bluetonium (bcm203x module) based chip is working.  I hope I
> did not gloss over any section of information although I am almost
> positive that I did not.  Anyways, any one having this problem has to
> simply download bluez-firmware and copy the broadcom files onto
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.  

the /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware was the old place for firmware files and
we came to the conclusion that putting them into /lib/firmware is much
better. The Debian Sarge/Sid and the upcoming SuSE 9.2 support both
directories, so it is a problem of the hotplug package of your
distribution.

Regards

Marcel




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