Hi all,
Recently bought an Asus USB-BT211, which is a Bluetooth radio with a
USB connector. Intent is to give my dusty old desktop this fancy
newfangled Bluetooth stuff. I'm running Debian 6.0.5 "squeeze",
current on updates. Kernel package is linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
version 2.6.32-45 (basically, 2.6.32 with distro patches). Bluez
package version 4.66-3.
Plug in the new gizmo, and dmesg reports something like:
usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=3000
usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
so the system is seeing *something*. But hciconfig shows nothing, so
the system isn't seeing a Bluetooth interface in particular.
lsusb shows a likely cause:
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0cf3:3000 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011
Bluetooth (no firmware)
No firmware. Okay, valid complaint. Hunt around, and I find a
package "firmware-atheros", version 0.28+squeeze1, which I apt-get
install. Now I have a file:
/lib/firmware/ath3k-1.fw
How do I get that firmware file into the USB gizmo? I've tried
unplugging/replugging, unloading/reloading various kernel modules,
with no luck.
This page
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath3k
makes me wonder if maybe this kernel is just too old. But why would
there be a firmware package for something that doesn't even work?
Well, okay, because Debian is goofy like that, I suppose. But I
figured I'd ask in case there's someone who knows something I don't.
I'd prefer not to have to build a new kernel from source. (Though
I'd even more prefer not to have to switch to unstable/sid.)
-- Ben
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