Re: [Bluez-users] Dongle firmware

Jose Bernardo Silva
2005-01-04T21:16:15Z

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:21:37 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote
> Hi Jose,
>
> > I've seen recently a few messages about new firmwares, is there a list of
> > dongles and firmwares available?
> > I have a Acer BT-500 and a MSI MS-6967, and I'd like to update these two.
>
> you should actually ask the vendor of these dongles for updates. However
> the ACER is a BlueCore01b and can't be updated with the
> GenericCSR.dfu firmware file and for the MSI I don't know. The
> general rule at the moment is if "hciconfig hci0 revision" don't
> show BlueCore02 and lsusb don't show it as a "Cambridge Silicion
> Radio". You shouldn't even try to update it.
>

Marcel,

My BT-500 shows in lsusb as " ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd.", and
"hciconfig hci0 revision shows it as a BlueCore02 as follows:
hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:60:57:32:96:0E ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
HCI 14.7
Chip version: BlueCore02 (ES2)
Max key size: 56 bit
SCO mapping: PCM

Does this mean I can update it? If so, where can I get that GenericCSR.dfu
firmware, and what can I use to update?

As for the MSI, the lsusb output isn't very promising ("ID 0db0:1967"), even
thoguh the output of hciconfig is similar:
hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:10:DC:AF:E1:13 ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
HCI 16.4
Chip version: BlueCore02
Max key size: 56 bit
SCO mapping: HCI

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