Rocketfish BT adapter needs to be reset before usable

[tmose]

I am using ubuntu 8.10 and blueman 1.0 (just did an apt-get update and upgrade) i have a rocketFish bluetooth 2.0 EDR USB Adapter. The machine sees the adapter and I have a complete bluetooth icon and all appears to be there. The problem is that when i try to do a scan nothing is found ( have tried 2 different headsets). Also when i try to set the adapter preferences nothing is saved.

Teh adapter and headsets work fine in a Windows XP VM but just not from the linux host system.

My guess is it is a driver problem but not sure how to resolve and where to get updated drivers.

This is what i get

hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: USB
 BD Address: 00:19:15:6D:C3:CD ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:0
 UP RUNNING
 RX bytes:195 acl:0 sco:0 events:25 errors:0
 TX bytes:349 acl:0 sco:0 commands:25 errors:0
 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8d 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80
 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
 Link policy:
 Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Can't read local name on hci0: Input/output error (5)

I believe the USB device uses a broadcom BCM2045B3 chipset

Hope you can help

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Try running:

sudo hciconfig hci0 reset

In a terminal and see if you get any different behaviour after that - the built in bluetooth on my MacBookPro seems to always need a reset like this before I can successfully use it - in my case it is a driver problem.

[tmose (tmo)]

Alex,

Thanks that helped, i can now find the headset and also connect. I been able to get some sound through but very choppy, also not able to get ti to work with Skype. Well more research to be done.

One other thing I noticed is that when i restart Bluetooth it never comes back up and when I do the hciconfig reset then it says hci0 is not available.

Definitely think it is a driver issue, since i have no problems with Bluetooth on my Lenovo laptop running the same versions of Ubuntu and Blueman.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Since this is a driver bug (the device needs to be reset in the btusb driver), assigning to the kernel.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi tmose,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid.

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 328529

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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