Belkin F8T013 Bluetooth adapter does not work

[David Balažic]

As per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SupportedHardware
I report that the Belkin F8T013 Bluetooth USB adapter does not work with Ubuntu 8.04.1 amd64.

Hardware IDs:
FCC ID: K7SF8T013
IC: 3623A-F8T013

USB ID : 050d:0013

After plugging in the adapter, a BT icon appears on the menu bar, but it can not detect a BT phone.

I am new to BT usage, so please say what info you need.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Hello,

- set your phone to be discoverable.
- open a terminal
Type "sudo hcitool scan" and tell me if you see your phone in the list (or paste the output here).

Do you see some errors in logs the file /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg that could conclude your bluetooth adapter is not working?

Apparently your model should work under Linux.

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

$ sudo hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

tail /var/log/messages
Feb 11 18:37:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 613.169622] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Feb 11 18:37:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 613.729268] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Feb 11 18:37:48 ubuntu kernel: [ 614.288937] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Feb 11 18:37:49 ubuntu kernel: [ 614.808621] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5

tail /var/log/dmesg
(nothing after I plugged in the BT adapter)

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

the dmesg command shows:
[ 798.005013] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 798.124948] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 798.348798] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 798.564679] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[ 798.684599] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 798.908465] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 799.124339] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[ 799.532080] usb 2-2: device not accepting address 6, error -71
[ 799.644014] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[ 800.051763] usb 2-2: device not accepting address 7, error -71

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

WARNING!
Please ignore the above. It seems the adapter is broken.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

Now it detected the phone, for example.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

David, are you your adapter is not broken, could you try on Windows for instance or another machine perhaps?

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

I did both:
 - same PC with Windows XP
 - other PC with Windows XP

Both report : USB device has malfunctioned...

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Thanks David,

I just seen my comment about broken device was sent at the same time you told it was broken.
Thanks for feedback.

Closing as INVALID