I was able to install bluez-bluefw on my amd64 system, and this should probably be marked at least ~amd64. I had to install this ebuild in order to get my Belkin F8T001 Bluetooth dongle to work on my Gentoo system. After installing the build and transfering the firmware to my dongle, I was able to use the dongle in conjunction with gnome-bluetooth (see also http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80671). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge info: Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 23 2004, 19:13:43)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr crypt cups divx4linux doc dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java jp2 jpeg junit ladspa ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mozilla mpeg mplayer multilib mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl php png povray ppds python quicktime readline real ruby samba scanner sdl slang ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales wifi xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
fixed in CVS, thanks