Dear Blue-z users
I am new to Linux and blueZ, so may be my question may be silly.

My USB BT dongle has ISSC chipset (the ebay seller claimed that it will be a Bilionton dongle but it turned out to be a cheap EEPROM less dongle with 11:11.. BD address ) . It works fine in windows with blusoleil. But I could not get it working in Linux - Kernerl 2.6.11 , Fedora core 3 redhat 12.0.

This is the output of hciconfig

[root@localhost ~]# hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
        DOWN
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:9 acl:0 sco:0 commands:4 errors:1
        Features: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
        Packet type: DM1 DH1 HV1
        Link policy:
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
[root@localhost ~]# hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
        DOWN
        RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0
        TX bytes:9 acl:0 sco:0 commands:4 errors:1
        Features: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
        Packet type: DM1 DH1 HV1
        Link policy:
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT

When I try hciconfig hci0 up , this is the response

[root@localhost ~]# hciconfig hci0 up
Can't init device hci0. Connection timed out(110)
[root@localhost ~]#

lsusb displays this
[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c517 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1131:1001 Integrated System Solution Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

The dongle's green LED is ON continuosly.

I searched google and went through the bluez posts and found similar posts.
but could not find a solution. Any help on this would be great since I already wasted more than a week after this.

Thanks
Anoop

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