Backbox + USBBT100 = Problem... [SOLVED]

[Orthrus]

Hello guys! I'm having some problems with my bluetooth device.

Device:
Linksys USBBT100

lsusb

Bus 008 Device 003: ID 046d:c051 Logitech, Inc. G3 (MX518) Optical Mouse
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 V1.0
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

hciconfig

hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
   BD Address: 00:0C:41:E2:0B:38  ACL MTU: 192:8  SCO MTU: 64:8
   DOWN
   RX bytes:3566 acl:0 sco:0 events:121 errors:0
   TX bytes:540 acl:0 sco:0 commands:120 errors:0

But when i try to turn on my device..

hciconfig hci0 up

Can't init device hci0: Invalid argument (22)

So my device doesn't turns on.. after a few hours of "trial and error" i came to a dead end.. do you have any thing to suggest?

[ZEROF]

HI,

Did you try Blueman ?

"How to", from Blueman site:

In Ubuntu you can add blueman repositories by issuing this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blueman/ppa

And to install it run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blueman

More info and developer site : http://blueman-project.org/screenshots.html

But after all, i'm not sure if this adapter will work. Maybe driver or kernel need some settings or install, but i think if you find solution you will be Linux hero :). Version 1 of this adapter worked fine with older Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 but after that i can't find information about this adapter.

Did you try with NDISWrapper ?

[Orthrus]

hmm device is working perfect under newer version of bluez (tested on Ubuntu 12.04 .. bluez 4.98 i thing)...

Can you help to update it?

1)
I uninstalled the old one from synaptic

2) download the source from the official website

3) then..

./configure
make
make install

but looks like nothing changed...

[ZEROF]

Hi bro,

Provide me your source download link and i will check for you.

[Orthrus]

Here you are mate! Thank you for helping me!!

http://www.bluez.org/bluez-498/

[ZEROF]

Hi one more time, i need just 2 more informations.

1. Your kernel version is? In terminal type: uname -a
2. And more information about your adapter, because i have found that you can have version 1 or 2 (do not know details).
3. What say you that bluez package will resolve your problem ?
4. Did you try to install ubuntu package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/bluez

Sorry i need to ask all this because without good informations i will just miss up your system :).

[Orthrus]

Thank you very much for your help.. but i fixed it!!!  :)

While i was playing with aircrack-ng suite (wifi card: alfa awus036h) i noticed that airodump was giving me [fixed channel mon0:-1]
so i had to update manually compat wireless drivers..

Here is how i fixed it:

Uninstall linux-backports-modules-* from synaptic

mkdir drivers
cd drivers/

wget www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3.0-stable/v3.0.0/compat-wireless-3.0-2.tar.bz2
tar -jxf compat-wireless-3.0-2.tar.bz2

cd compat-wireless-3.0-2

wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/channel-negative-one-maxim.patch
patch ./net/wireless/chan.c channel-negative-one-maxim.patch

make
make install
make unload
reboot

The same update fixed bluetooth support!

[ZEROF]

Hi Orthrus,

This what i call lol solution. Great news, and i will mark topic to solved. Thanks for share.