Updated the xubuntu install; still functions brilliantly. Here's the dmesg output from xubuntu that I think might be relevant:
[ 18.352519] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 [ 18.352538] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 18.352540] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 18.352541] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 18.352545] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 18.390994] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6 [ 18.391138] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb [ 20.705484] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 20.705488] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 20.705489] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 21.318906] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 21.318909] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast hcitool dev reports: Devices: hci0 00:02:72:1E:60:4A lsusb reports: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0cf3:3005 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011 Bluetooth ** Changed in: bluez (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945932 Title: Atheros USB bluetooth adapter not detected in 12.04 beta 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/945932/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs