Hi Alastair,

> I'm also experiencing the same behaviour as Felix with a Belkin dongle
> (Broadcom) with bluez-libs-3.2, bluez-utils-3.2. This is where ISCAN is
> not set even though it is enabled in hcid.conf. I've compiled from
> source on a Gentoo Linux box.
> 
> One additional thing that I would like to add is that I see this in my
> syslog:
> 
> Jul 28 00:10:15 qoo hcid[23009]: HCI dev 0 registered
> Jul 28 00:10:15 qoo hcid[23009]: Device hci0 has been added
> Jul 28 00:10:15 qoo hcid[23009]: Register path:/org/bluez/hci0
> fallback:0
> Jul 28 00:10:15 qoo hcid[23009]: HCI dev 0 up
> Jul 28 00:10:15 qoo hcid[23009]: Starting security manager 0
> Jul 28 00:10:16 qoo hcid[23009]: Can't write inquiry mode for hci0:
> Connection timed out (110)

the attached patch might help. If we have a Bluetooth 1.0b or 1.1 device
without a quirk to enable inqmode, we shouldn't even try to change the
inquiry mode. Seems that the Broadcom dongles are really sensible if you
try to send a command they don't support.

Regards

Marcel