Re: [Bluez-users] Trouble loading firmware with bcm203x

["Dark Shadow" <shadowofdarkness@gmail.com>]

On 12/17/06, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Could this be my problem.
> > http://web.archive.org/web/20050310013858/www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/usb.html
> >
> > It says
> > Device       usb-ohci                   usb-uhci      uhci
> > BCM 2033 no firmware load     works            works but slow
> >
> >
> > I have looked and all my usb ports on my laptop and dekstop are ohci.
> > I have found a really old laptop that has a uhci port but none of my
> > live disks work because it is decreped hardware so when I find one I
> > will see if the firmware loads better.
>
> no it is not your problem. You simply don't have a BCM2033 and that was
> the only one needed the firmware download.
>
> Yours looks like an HID proxy mode device it might need some extra love
> to switch it from HID into HCI mode. However that is always a magic
> sequence and for some devices the reset=1 is fully enough. Some others
> need some crazy init command. I prefer you try a clean vanilla kernel
> and check if the /proc/bus/usb/devices shows a Bluetooth device.
> Otherwise you have to sniff what Windows is doing to init your device
> and it would be good if someone sends me one of these to have it in my
> device library.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
I will compile a vanilla kernel to test. I unfortunately can't test in
Windows as I started single booting Linux years ago.

I really think mine needs a firmware upgrade because it has worked
before after running modprobe bcm203x. One time using firmware from
your package and one time I took a file called frmUpgrade.sys from the
windows driver cd renamed it BCM2033-MD.hex and ran it through your
hex2bin program to get a bin and used that. The frmUpgrade.sys

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