Re: Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth HID devices not being remembered over suspend/reboot

[Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>]

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Hi Guys:

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get ahold of the documentation for
what is happening under the hood here.  If I do, i'll be glad to get
some form of a patch together or try to get said documentation released.

Regards

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
>   
>> I know that this is a developers list, but I have dug pretty deeply
>> here and got to the bottom of what the built-in USB bluetooth dongle
>> is.  I have found that its CSR based.   Under Windows Vista my Apple
>> keyboard and Logitech MX 900 work and are remembered across boots.
>> From what I have heard, this device should just work.  System is a
>> Dell Vostro 1510 with Intel Core2Duo running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex,
>> bluez 4.22.  I also have an Intel 3945 ABG PCI mini wireless card in
>> it as well.
>>
>> I am willing to do the hacking to get this going - I used to submit
>> patches to the Linux kernel and develop/patch network drivers for
>> Frame Relay WAN, as well as making the 2.2x ehternet bridge accessible
>> via a virtual ethernet interface - my email address was
>> grantma@anathoth.gen.nz.
>>
>> Should I be using the module flags for a straight CSR modem?  Is the
>> kernel module btusb ths only place the bluez stack looks hard at the
>> hardware?
>>
>> From what I have found looking at posts to the list, the CSR dongle,
>> once it is set up properly - I don't mind running a CSR DFU firmware
>> on it - it should just work.
>>
>> I am going to test software by using my old Logitech dongle in the MX
>> 900 base station-charger.
>>
>> Getting the mouse going reliably and keyboard is going to help with my
>> frustrations with the small sized keys on the laptop keyboard when
>> essay writing - currently  I am rebinding the OOo.org keys into an
>> emacs type of keymap.
>>
>> lsusb and hciconfig -a output follow.  Is there anything else that may
>> be helpful?
>>
>> I gather that solving this will help out a lot of Ubuntu Dell laptop users.
>>     
>
> check with "hciconfig hci0 revision" and "bccmd buildname" (both as
> root) if they have a special Dell firmware running on it. If not then
> there can be still a Dell custom application running in the VM of the
> Bluetooth chip.
>
> Best bet is to ask Mario from Dell if he can help us out here and maybe
> make HID/HCI switching persistent across reboots. If not then we might
> have to write a bluetoothd plugin that does the job for us.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
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Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello@dell.com


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