dellWirelessCtl and bluetooth

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:43:23AM +0200, Patrick Steiner wrote:
> i dont know why but this mail doesnt appear on the mailinglist....
> 
> sendet it now 2 times... hope now it will work.
>    
> Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:20:25AM +0200, Patrick Steiner wrote:
> >> hi michael,
> >>
> >> thanks for testing, so it looks like its a fedora bug....
> >> are there any recent binary available for ubuntu? i only could find some 
> >> old 0.12 version.
> >>
> >> so i can test it with a livecd.
> >
> > I really doubt that this is a bug specific to fedora. Rather, I think
> > that there is probably something that you are running into that I am not
> > capturing in my test cases.
> >
> > So, can you do a few more tests for me to try to narrow this down?
> >
> > Any other special stuff? How are you dual-booting between
> > fedora/windows? Can you be sure to hard power off system after windows
> > boot to make sure it isnt doing funky things to the hw.
> i have installed grub bootloader.
> if i only restart my system (vista runs before) bluetooth works.
> 
> i have got bios a04 now.

Ah. I think I have it. You are probably running into a different issue. :)

We found a bug in ubuntu that is probably also in fedora. Let me find
the details for you. You have to do a hciconfig reset before the driver
can talk. I'll have to find the person with the details.

There is a fix for the driver floating around. Not sure it is in latest
kernels.
--
Michael