Inspiron 1525 + Karmic 9.10 + Bluetooth

[eidaot]

I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 1525 using 9.10 Karmic 64bit.

I've just recently added on a Bluetooth BCM92045MD internal adapter.
In the BIOS, bluetooth is set to on. The wireless switch is set to control all (wireless and BT). It detects on boot, dmesg shows that. I've got my front panel still off, and I can unplug and plug up the adapter and /var/log/messages shows that the device is being removed and added. However when I run sudo hcitool devI get no devices shown.

I know that hcitool work, because I have a D-Link USB DBT-120 that shows up and works perfectly.

sudo dellWirelessCtl --st_btIt shows it's enabled at boot, supported, enabled, controlled by wireless switch at boot, runtime switch control currently enabled. However it also said "Bluetooth not installed".

I do bluetooth programming with python and am wondering what I am missing? If you guys need more information, I'll post actual results of dmesg, messages, dellWirelessCtl, and such.

Thanks for any suggestions on this!

[eidaot]

To add some detail to my previous message, here are some of my outputs. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

dmesg |grep tooth
[ 0.430009] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 0.430023] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 0.430023] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 0.839285] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.13
[ 0.839287] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 0.839290] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 0.839292] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 0.839327] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 0.839330] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 0.839332] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

hcitool show's nothing
sudo hcitool dev
Devices:

sudo dellWirelessCtl --st_bt

Radio Status for Bluetooth:
Bluetooth enabled at boot
Bluetooth supported
Bluetooth enabled
Bluetooth installed
Bluetooth controlled by wireless switch at boot
Bluetooth runtime switch control currently enabled
Status Code: 0

Even running the bluetooth-agent manually shows that bluetooth is enabled. I click on enable using the agent, the button goes disabled and it just waits and never comes back.
bluetooth-properties
** Message: adding killswitch idx 1 state 1
** Message: Reading of RFKILL events failed
** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
** Message: killswitches state 1
** Message: RFKILL event: idx 1 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
<I click on Enable Bluetooth in the progrma>
** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
** Message: killswitches state 1

Interesting enough, lsusb shows up the broadcom usb devices as a keyboard and mouse?! Very strange.
sudo lsusb -s7: -v

Bus 007 Device 007: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x0a5c Broadcom Corp.
idProduct 0x4503
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Broadcom Corp
iProduct 0
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 34
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse
iInterface 0
** UNRECOGNIZED: 09 21 11 01 00 01 22 71 00
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0004 1x 4 bytes
bInterval 10
Device Status: 0x0001
Self Powered

Bus 007 Device 006: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x0a5c Broadcom Corp.
idProduct 0x4502
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Broadcom Corp
iProduct 0
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 34
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 1 Keyboard
iInterface 0
** UNRECOGNIZED: 09 21 11 01 00 01 22 36 00
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes
bInterval 10
Device Status: 0x0001
Self Powered

Bus 007 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
bDeviceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x0a5c Broadcom Corp.
idProduct 0x4500
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Broadcom
iProduct 2 BCM2045B2
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 25
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xe0
Self Powered
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 0mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 9 Hub
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0001 1x 1 bytes
bInterval 255
Hub Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 41
nNbrPorts 3
wHubCharacteristic 0x0004
Ganged power switching
Compound device
Ganged overcurrent protection
bPwrOn2PwrGood 50 * 2 milli seconds
bHubContrCurrent 100 milli Ampere
DeviceRemovable 0x0e
PortPwrCtrlMask 0xff
Hub Port Status:
Port 1: 0000.0100 power
Port 2: 0000.0103 power enable connect
Port 3: 0000.0103 power enable connect
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)

[groovomata]

Hmmm, my bluetooth isn't working either. I checked the bios for my inspiron 6400 and it says that bluetooth is enabled. The function key F2 should also turn it on and off along with my wireless card, however the wireless icon is on, but the bluetooth one is not. As well, the gnome bluetooth app is showing "Bluetooth is Disabled". My question is, how do I turn it on?

[TheHolm]

I have similar problem with Dell XPS 16. I have seen a thread somewhere (and I fail to find this link now) that Vista driver updates Broadcom firmware wich makes it unaccesable from linux.

There is a tool on Dell site to reflash old firmware to reanable it.

May be it helps.

[eidaot]

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/3/7/1106944/thread#mid-1106944

I found this link but for the life of me I don't understand how to use it. I haven't compiled a kernel since slackware 2.0. Anyone know if this would work for my case or if it's even relevant?

[TheHolm]

Problem seems lay in fact that Dell Bluetooth module does not have correct device info.

bDeviceClass 9 Hub does not sounds good.

Bus 007 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceSubClass 0 Unused
bDeviceProtocol 0 Full speed (or root) hub
bMaxPacketSize0 8


Normal bluetooth dongle should has something like bellow

Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0a5c:2039 Broadcom Corp.

Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 224 Wireless
bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency
bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth

[groovomata]

You wouldn't be able to post a link to that Dell firmware would you? I can't seem to find it.
Thank you,
Erik.

[eidaot]

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R159805&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=213714

Found it! This firmware patch fixed my bluetooth and will now even work in Windows 7 (in case anyone cared.)

I'm giving credit to this other site I found regarding my model of Inspiron 1525 and his attempt to downgrade to XP. He had the magic link to the Dell firmware patch.
http://www.khanh.net/blog/archives/27-Installing-Windows-XP-on-a-Dell-Inspiron-1525-downgrading-from-Windows-Vista.html

Thank you all for your help on this, you guys are a great community!

[TheHolm]

It works on my XPS 16. After installing driver under Window 7 I got Bluetooth in Ubuntu 9.10/64.

[shadetree1]

Thanks for the link to the Dell Driver patch :)

My first install with Karmic on a Dell Inspiron 1318 had me scratching my head for a while with this Bluetooth issue.

shadetree