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    SORTED: Belkin F8T001 BT dongle support

    Hi. I've looked through various forums and this issue crops up periodically and still seems not to be resolved.

    I have a Belkin Bluetooth F8T001 dongle which is not getting loaded up correctly. I looked in DMESG and found ...

    [ 8551.840111] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
    [ 8551.990326] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    [ 8552.084215] Bluetooth: Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver ver 1.2
    [ 8552.084265] usb 2-1: firmware: requesting BCM2033-MD.hex
    [ 8552.100425] bcm203x_probe: Mini driver request failed
    [ 8552.100451] bcm203x: probe of 2-1:1.0 failed with error -5
    [ 8552.100533] usbcore: registered new interface driver bcm203x
    [ 8552.132535] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.3
    [ 8552.132659] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
    [ 8586.973287] wlan0: deauthenticated
    [ 8587.972122] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:14:bf:6c:66:74 try 1
    [ 8587.973650] wlan0 direct probe responded
    [ 8587.973664] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:bf:6c:66:74
    [ 8587.977811] wlan0: authenticated
    [ 8587.977834] wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:bf:6c:66:74
    [ 8587.982712] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:14:bf:6c:66:74 (capab=0x1 status=0 aid=1)
    [ 8587.982725] wlan0: associated
    [ 9737.392164] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
    [ 9743.136113] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
    [ 9743.342434] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    [ 9743.345536] usb 3-1: firmware: requesting BCM2033-MD.hex
    [ 9743.387605] bcm203x_probe: Mini driver request failed
    [ 9743.387658] bcm203x: probe of 3-1:1.0 failed with error -5
    peter@Huey:~$

    Others have said everything was resolved having loaded Bluetooth support via the package manager - I looked at the list of what was already installed and found 4.32-0ubuntu4.1 was in place.

    I'm using ubuntu 9.04 fully patched on an Acer Aspire One.

    Any suggestions?

    Solution:

    It transpires that the dongle requests two firmware files but the ones on the distribution have the wrong name. The solution is to rename the files in /etc/firmware to exactly match what the dongle is expecting.

    Peter
    Last edited by Infoteksec; September 21st, 2009 at 11:57 AM. Reason: Problem solved.

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    Re: Belkin F8T001 BT dongle support

    Hmmm ... a bit of research led me to what might be the problem. The DMESG entry indicated the driver is trying to find BCM2033-MD.hex but the /lib/firmware directory contains files with the filetype of .BIN c.f.:

    peter@Huey:/lib/firmware$ ls BCM*
    BCM2033-FW.BIN BCM2033-MD.BIN

    Should I simply rename the files? Are HEX and BIN one and the same??

    Peter

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    Re: Belkin F8T001 BT dongle support

    OK, I renamed the files, plugged in my dongle and DMESG no longer gives an error message so I guess either the driver is looking for the wrong files or the files have the wrong name.

    Could someone with access to a maintainer have the problem fixed? I don't have the resources to check but I guess the problem is generic across the Linux community.

    Next ... how do I know if the damn thing is working? I was sort of hoping that the network LED would change from off to, perhaps, green. Sigh!

    Peter

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    Re: Belkin F8T001 BT dongle support

    I had the same problem with my Belkin bluetooth usb F8T001 adapter.
    The package for getting the .hex and .bin files is located at:

    http://bluez.sourceforge.net/downloa...are-1.2.tar.gz

    Now I don't get the error message, but still I have some problem with bluetooth service. I keep trying to start it with

    • sudo service bluetooth start


    but when I ask for the service status with

    • sudo service bluetooth status


    I always get the same response: "bluetooth is not running"

    Any suggestions?

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