Comment 16 for bug 1589889

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Cruz Fernandez (cruz-fernandez) wrote :

Updated firmware with latest one (version 481).

Same as last one, decompress it, and ensure the permissions are correct on:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54734 may 19 21:22 /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM-0a5c-6410.hcd

When loaded you should see something this on 'dmesg' like:

[ 6828.577574] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM (001.001.005) build 0481

After more digging on how this works, looks like several broadcom chips have similar problems to load this type of files (bug #1129865, bug #1065400). According to a question in askubuntu (also best place of how the procedure to produce this .hcd files) http://askubuntu.com/questions/632336/bluetooth-broadcom-43142-isnt-working-on-ubuntu , there are some legal problems that don't allow this firmware files to be added to the Ubuntu installation

Thanks a lot to @bertusrex on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2317843&p=13514092#post13514092 for getting into windows and getting us the firmware file.