gimx bluetooth don't see my bluetooth device

[siden]

I have a integrated bluetooth chip in my computer running an up-to-date linux mint13 64bits

when i run gimx bluetooth, it say ther's not any bluetooth device detected.

if I run "lsusb" in a terminal, it returns:

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Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3005 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011 Bluetooth

so the bluetooth is there...

any idea?

[Matlo]

No bluetooth dongle from this chip manufacturer was reported to be compatible.

http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Bluetooth_dongle

What's the result of "hciconfig -a"?

[siden]

here is the result of "hciconfig -a"

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hci0:	Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
	BD Address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0  ACL MTU: 1022:8  SCO MTU: 121:3
	UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
	RX bytes:1303 acl:0 sco:0 events:54 errors:0
	TX bytes:717 acl:0 sco:0 commands:52 errors:0
	Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0d 0xfe 0x98 0x7f 0x79 0x87
	Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
	Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF 
	Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT 
	Name: 'mint-0'
	Class: 0x6e0100
	Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Audio, Telephony
	Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
	HCI Version: 3.0 (0x5)  Revision: 0x9999
	LMP Version: 3.0 (0x5)  Subversion: 0x9999
	Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)

[Matlo]

What's the result of:

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hciconfig -a hci0

and:

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hcirevision hci0

?

[siden]

"hciconfig -a hci0" make the same as "hciconfig -a"

hciconfig -a hci0:

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hci0:	Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
	BD Address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0  ACL MTU: 1022:8  SCO MTU: 121:3
	Unsupported manufacturer

[Matlo]

I've no idea why gimx-bluetooth doesn't detect it

What's the result of:

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bdaddr

and

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bdaddr -r -i hci0 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0

?

[siden]

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$ bdaddr -r -i hci0 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0
Manufacturer:   Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)
Device address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0

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$ bdaddr
Manufacturer:   Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)
Device address: 74:2F:68:D9:65:A0

Unsupported manufacturer

[Matlo]

You can try -at your own risk- to change the bdaddr:

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bdaddr -r -i hci0 <sixaxis bdaddr>

Replace <sixaxis bdaddr> with the one shown in gimx-bluetooth.

After that try to read the bdaddr and check if it was applied:

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bdaddr

This will tell if there is a chance for this bt module to work with GIMX.

[siden]

what are the risks?

[Matlo]

I checked the bdaddr source code, the manufacturer "Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)" is not supported.

It won't work, there is no need to test it.