I am seeing the same behaviour here, with a Keyspan USB dongle with a Broadcom 2033 chip. Everything worked before upgrading from Jaunty. I found bug #156133 and applied the karmic-proposed package but it still behaves the same.
lsusb: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:2001 Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Device Here's what I see in syslog when I try to do a device search from the task bar applet: Jan 7 13:49:38 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: HCI dev 0 down Jan 7 13:49:38 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: Adapter /org/bluez/973/hci0 has been disabled Jan 7 13:49:38 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: Stopping security manager 0 Jan 7 13:49:41 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: HCI dev 0 up Jan 7 13:49:41 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: Starting security manager 0 Jan 7 13:49:41 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: Adapter /org/bluez/973/hci0 has been enabled Jan 7 13:49:58 mhackett bluetoothd[985]: Discovery session 0xaf2730 with :1.66 activated Jan 7 13:49:58 mhackett kernel: [ 3027.668359] hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout -- [KARMIC] Bluetooth doesn't work (hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout) (Broadcom dongle) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
