[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#379401: even hciconfig doesn't work for me

[Dimitris Kogias]

I'm having the same problem, only in my case hciconfig has no effect:

d at illuminator:~$ sudo hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:20:E0:4C:D2:DA ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
        UP RUNNING PSCAN
        RX bytes:449 acl:0 sco:0 events:24 errors:0
        TX bytes:337 acl:0 sco:0 commands:22 errors:0
        Features: 0xff 0xff 0x0f 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
        Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
        Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
        Name: 'illuminator-0'
        Class: 0x3e0100
        Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Object
Transfer, Audio
        Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
        HCI Ver: 1.1 (0x1) HCI Rev: 0x322 LMP Ver: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subver:
0x322
        Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)

d at illuminator:~$ sudo hciconfig -a piscan
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:20:E0:4C:D2:DA ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
        UP RUNNING PSCAN
        RX bytes:726 acl:0 sco:0 events:27 errors:0
        TX bytes:346 acl:0 sco:0 commands:25 errors:0
        Features: 0xff 0xff 0x0f 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
        Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
        Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
        Name: 'illuminator-0'
        Class: 0x3e0100
        Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Object
Transfer, Audio
        Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
        HCI Ver: 1.1 (0x1) HCI Rev: 0x322 LMP Ver: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subver:
0x322
        Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)


This is with a 2.6.17.8 kernel from kernel.org.  I've tried both with
and without the kernel patches from bluez.org and the behavior is the
same in both cases.