Re: [Bluez-users] Compile bluez-bluefw-1.0 fails

Marcel Holtmann
2004-04-19T13:30:12Z

Hi Alex,

> The dongle's a Belkin F8T001, the original model. Bluefw works very
> temprementally; sometimes it just doesn't, for no apparent reason, with
> the dongle timing out. Blue-fw was uninstalled before trying out the
> Blutonium kernel module, and BCM-LEGAL.txt, BCM2033-FW.bin and
> BCM2033-MD.hex placed in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
>
> Athlon T-Bird 900Mhz
> Gentoo stable, gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5-r2.
> bluez-hcidump-1.8
> bluez-libs-2.5
> bluez-sdp-1.5
> bluez-utils-2.5
> latest CVS KDE Bluetooth
>
> dmesg excerpts:
> ---------------------------------------------
> ...blah...
> Bluetooth: Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver ver 1.0
> Bluetooth: Core ver 2.4
> NET: Registered protocol family 31
> Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
> Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.5
> ...blah...
> bcm203x_probe: Mini driver request failed

that is the problematic line and it means that the request_firmware()
call can't load the file BCM2033-MD.hex. Do you have installed the
hotplug scripts and is the firmware.agent script present?

Regards

Marcel