Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119271
Lack of "class" overrides stop UART/serial_cs-based Bluetooth cards working
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:05:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: The bluez-utils package adds /etc/pcmcia/bluetooth and /etc/pcmcia/bluetooth.conf to the pcmcia-cs package so that Bluetooth PCMCIA devices get correctly set up. Because some bluetooth cards behave like serial ports, with no additional help cardmgr will set them up as such, so functionality was added to give the facility for a card's class to be overridden, like so: card "Bluetooth Serial Card" manfid 0x1234, 0x5678 bind "serial_cs" class "bluetooth" The bluetooth.conf file added by the bluez-utils package originally had this functionality added, but because the version of pcmcia-cs currently used is too old, this extra class override has been removed via a patch in the bluez-utils .spec file to prevent cardmgr complaining when sourcing this file on startup. This functionality was apparently added to the pcmcia-cs package in version 3.2.1 released August 2002 (from the source changelog). Please can either this class override functionality be backported into the current pcmcia-cs package or the base version used instead be updated to 3.2.1 or newer? Currently, when I insert my H4 mode Brainboxes BL-500, it gets detected and set up as a serial port, if I then perform the steps that the /etc/pcmcia/bluetooth script would do, (ie. run hciattach), then the card works and behaves correctly as it should with the rest of the Fedora Bluetooth packages, so this fix would make the card work automatically. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-16 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert a UART-based (serial_cs driver) PCMCIA card 2. Examine /var/log/messages Actual Results: Log messages show the card is handed to the PCMCIA serial subsystem and set up as standard serial port Expected Results: Log messages should show the card handed to the PCMCIA bluetooth subsystem and set up as a serial port followed by hciattach to attach the device into the running bluetooth daemons. Additional info:
We have pcmcia-cs-3.2.7 in FC3. It ought to be fine.
Yes, I imagine it is. The bug was originally and specifically against FC1 so I'm not sure why it was reclassified against FC2 or FC3. I imagine this won't ever get fixed in FC1 (I'm not running it anywhere now) so it's pointless keeping this bug new/open.