BT is enabled in the BIOS, and the BT LED on my computer is shining happily.
However: 'hciconfig' gives no output, 'hcitool dev' shows only the 'Devices:' header, and 'hcitool scan' tells me that "Device is not available: No such device". However, the BT device shows up on the USB bus, 'lsusb' tells me:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 413c:8105 Dell Computer Corp.
Like the participant in that thread, I no longer have Vista or XP installed. I tried to download the Windows driver from Dell to download it with dfutool http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/dfu.html. The file, R129472.EXE, can be 'unzip'ped to
BtSwSP2.exe, which 'cabextract' can decompose into a set of DLLs and such. I'm not sure how to proceed from there, though.
(dfutool is not packaged with bluez-utils in Ubuntu, should I file that as a separate feature request/bug?)
I have a Dell Latitude D620, which included (according to the "Compatible systems" link at the bottom of http:// support. dell.com/ support/ downloads/ download. aspx?c= us&l=en& s=gen&releaseid =R129472& SystemID= LATITUDE% 20D620& servicetag= &os=WW1& osl=en& deviceid= 7388&devlib= 0&typecnt= 0&vercnt= 2&catid= -1&impid= -1&formatcnt= 1&libid= 5&fileid= 172476
) a Dell 350 Bluetooth module.
BT is enabled in the BIOS, and the BT LED on my computer is shining happily.
However: 'hciconfig' gives no output, 'hcitool dev' shows only the 'Devices:' header, and 'hcitool scan' tells me that "Device is not available: No such device". However, the BT device shows up on the USB bus, 'lsusb' tells me:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 413c:8105 Dell Computer Corp.
Apparently, this can be caused by a Vista-specific firmware "upgrade" from Dell that sabotages the BT module, see http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?p=2308248
Like the participant in that thread, I no longer have Vista or XP installed. I tried to download the Windows driver from Dell to download it with dfutool http:// www.holtmann. org/linux/ bluetooth/ dfu.html. The file, R129472.EXE, can be 'unzip'ped to
BtSwSP2.exe, which 'cabextract' can decompose into a set of DLLs and such. I'm not sure how to proceed from there, though.
(dfutool is not packaged with bluez-utils in Ubuntu, should I file that as a separate feature request/bug?)
-k