USB Bluetooth Adapter

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:40 pm

I bought an USB Bluetooth adapter but doesn't work, the new kernel version has the drivers for my adapter but I don't want to upgrade all the kernel only for my USB bluetooth, Does anyone know how I can install the drivers????. Is a genereic USB Adapter.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:05 am

Some more facts about the adapter please

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:13 pm

Would you believe that I don't know?, in the box there was nothing, even a trade or model

, I probe it with the kernel version in Gutsy, and it worked, I can't give more information, sorry

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:01 pm

OK - that's life

Give us the output of lsusb (and/or sudo lsusb)

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:26 pm

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 009: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0a5c:2100 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:32 pm

Four instances of the thing?!
Anyway it is a Broadcom and I have had reports of success with the Linux driver - I don't know if that goes for USB as well
Follow the description for the Linux driver in the wiki
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... adcom_43xx

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:21 pm

One of the instances is for my usb mouse, and the others appears when I conect my bluetooth adapter

I could solve the problem partially, I can send files but I can't receive them. I did this:

I installed the bluez stack, but it doesn't seem to work

After I found this page http://linux6400.wordpress.com/2007/04/ ... comment-34 and I followed the instructions, then I said I can only send files but I can't receive them.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:36 am

Sorry - for a moment I forgot it was a bluetooth adapter when i saw Broadcom - the wifi problem with Broadcom seems more or less solved - the wiki does not help you of course.
But I found this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup
I also found a blog claiming that you must not plug in the adapter in a USB hub but rather directly into your computer

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:27 pm

Finally, I did it, I made it work. http://linux6400.wordpress.com/2007/04/ ... comment-34

I did a clean Reinstall of Mint(just for fun

) and I did the steps from this page http://linux6400.wordpress.com/2007/04/ ... comment-34

and finally It is working fine.

Thank you for the ideas.