Re: [Bluez-devel] News about the Broadcom BCM92035DGL

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi,

> > the Broadcom dongles with the USB product id 0x2009 like the IOgear
> > GBU311 need a special HCI vendor command to switch from HID into full
> > HCI. Without this command the dongle is working, but only responses to
> > commands in the OGF_INFO_PARAM class. This command is 3B FC 01 00 and
> > the last byte toggles between HCI and HID mode.
> > 
> > < HCI Command: Vendor (0x3f|0x003b) plen 1
> >   0000: 00                                                .
> > > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 4
> >   0000: 01 3b fc 00                                       .;..
> > 
> > Right now I have no solution how to integrate this so that it works
> > nicely, because I don't wanna pollute the Bluetooth core with Broadcom
> > specific hacks. However you can execute "hcitool cmd 3f 3b 00" by hand
> > and after that the mouse and keyboard devices provided by this dongle
> > should disconnect and you can fully use the Bluetooth part.
> 
> so everyone with the IOgear GBU311 or the Microsoft Wireless Transceiver
> for Bluetooth 2.0 should test the attached kernel patch and report back.
> The patch will apply cleanly against 2.6.10-mh3 and 2.6.11-rc3.

so nobody owns the Microsoft Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth 2.0 and
is willing to test this patch for me. I like to get this patch into the
final 2.6.11 kernel and so I am a little bit in rush.

Regards

Marcel




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