dellWirelessCtl and bluetooth

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:08PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> 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.

This is from ubuntu, but it is likely that the same thing affects
Fedora. Here is the bug info:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/92111

Can you see if running a reset fixes this? (hciconfig hci0 reset)
--
Michael