Bug 478731

Summary:	Dell bluetooth driver not loading (with fix)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andy Burns <fedora>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	astrand, harald, lcamilo, mishu
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Description Andy Burns 2009-01-04 10:48:00 UTC

Description of problem:
On a Dell E6500 laptop with Dell Wireless 370 the BIOS itself initialises bluetooth so that a mouse appears as a basic HID device, however this prevents bluez from seeing the bluetooth adapter itself, the mouse works only as a basic two button device, and additional bluetooth devices such as phones cannot be paired.

How reproducible:
Always

Additional info:
Based on the patch from Dell at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/637/

I did some manual tests with hid2hci, which allows the gnome bluetooth applet to see the adapter natively and scan for other devices, to ensure this happens properly at boot time I added a rules file, I don't know enough about udev to say this is the proper way to fix it, but it works for me and could be of use to other people.

/etc/udev/rules.d/96-bluetooth-hid.rules

# This rule covers a variety of Dell Bluetooth adapters
# it looks like a bit of an odd rule, because it is matching
# on a mouse device that is self powered, but that is where
# a HID report needs to be sent to switch modes.
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="413c", ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}=="02", ATTRS{bmAttributes}=="e0", RUN+="/usr/sbin/hid2hci --tohci"

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Comment 2 Luis Camilo 2009-12-17 20:09:44 UTC

I have a Dell XPS M2010, I've been having the same problem if I do any upgrade to bluez or bluez-libs on fedora 11 or if you install fedora 12, my bluetooth keyboard stops working on login.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 11:34:40 UTC

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