Re: [Bluez-users] Broadcom BCM2035 Firmware

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Paul,

> I have a laptop with a built in BCM2035 USB bluetooth module
> ("plugged" and "unplugged" by way of a "wireless" button). Downloaded
> and installed the latest bluez packages from source, including the
> firmware one. I notice that it only has BCM2033 firmware, and I'm
> fairly sure this is being loaded when I modprobe the bcm203x kernel
> module, however utilities all report BD Address as 00:00:00:00:00:00
> regardless of whether the interface is up or down. Aside from this, it
> all works ok, except that I have to specify the device (hci0) with
> each tool command. I assume this is because they "use the first
> available hci device by default", but because mine has a null address,
> it isn't recognised.
> 
> Therefore, I have 2 questions:
> 
> Is there anywhere I can get 2035 firmware from? Can it be extracted
> from the windows drivers, and if so, how?

show us the content of /proc/bus/usb/devices after you activated your
Bluetooth dongle. What happens if you load the hci_usb.ko module with
the "reset=1" kernel parameter?

Regards

Marcel




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