[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#519967: bluez: belkin f8t017 unsupported

[Pol Hallen]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.36-3
Severity: normal
File: bluez


Hello

kernel 2.6.28.6 and debian testing

After connected this adapter:
[...]
[19727.688728] usb 7-2.1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=4503
[19727.688731] usb 7-2.1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[19727.768644] usb 7-2.1.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[19727.875854] usb 7-2.1.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[19727.876743] usb 7-2.1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=050d, idProduct=0017
[19727.876746] usb 7-2.1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[19727.876748] usb 7-2.1.3: Product: BLUETOOTH USB +EDR ADAPTER Class 1 v2.1 UHE
[19727.876750] usb 7-2.1.3: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp
[19727.876752] usb 7-2.1.3: SerialNumber: 000A3A871F64
[19727.965930] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.3
[19727.966427] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[...]

hciconfig
hci0:   Type: USB
        BD Address: 00:0A:3A:87:1F:64 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
        UP RUNNING
        RX bytes:309 acl:0 sco:0 events:40 errors:0
        TX bytes:920 acl:0 sco:0 commands:40 errors:0

using hcitool scan
Scanning ... (take 15seconds)
Inquiry failed: Connection timed out

hcitool inq
Inquiring ... (take 15seconds)
Inquiry failed.: Connection timed out

So I believe that this adapter is not supported by bluez (and/or kernel)

is there a solution for this problem?

thanks

Pol

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.6-luana (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         1.2.12-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2                3.36-1      Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.12-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.18.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-20      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-88    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.4-1       tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                         0.125-7     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages bluez-utils recommends:
ii  bluez-audio                   3.36-3     Bluetooth audio support
ii  obex-data-server              0.3.4-1    D-Bus service for OBEX client and 

Versions of packages bluez-utils suggests:
pn  bluez-firmware               <none>      (no description available)
ii  kdebluetooth                 1.0~beta8-5 KDE Bluetooth Framework

-- no debconf information