Hi. I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 Centrino (Core2) Duo and I'm using Gentoo Linux AMD64 branch. I've never been able to make Bluetooth hardware work on that specific laptop. I always get an error message in local syslog saying: hci_usb_intr_rx_submit: hci0 intr rx submit failed urb ffff81007e49c3a8 err -28 Running hciconfig -a shows the interface is down with no MAC address. There is no /dev/hci0 device node. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot my laptop Actual Results: There is no /nev/hci0 device node. # hciconfig -a hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0 DOWN RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0 TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:0 Expected Results: Presence of a /dev/hci0 device node. Module bcm203x loaded manually using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Local syslog output: Nov 29 11:02:00 solo Bluetooth: Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver ver 1.1 Nov 29 11:02:00 solo usbcore: registered new interface driver bcm203x Nov 29 11:02:17 solo hcid[10495]: Bluetooth HCI daemon Nov 29 11:02:17 solo hci_usb_intr_rx_submit: hci0 intr rx submit failed urb ffff81007f6ac0a8 err -28 Nov 29 11:02:17 solo hcid[10498]: Can't init device hci0: Input/output error (5) Nov 29 11:02:17 solo hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout Nov 29 11:02:17 solo sdpd[10505]: Bluetooth SDP daemon Nov 29 11:02:18 solo hcid[10495]: Sending read scan enable command failed: Connection timed out (110) emerge --info output: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:46:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="fr en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage" SYNC="rsync://athena.olympe.local/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 ati bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdr encode fbcon ffmpeg flac gdbm gif gnutls gphoto2 gpm hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib isdnlog ithreads jpeg kde lm_sensors midi mjpeg mmx modplug mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musicbrainz ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 rar readline reflection samba sdl session slang spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi xine xinerama xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What are you trying to do exactly/which services don't work? You don't need any /dev/hci? device for hciconfig -a to work... Also, net-wireless/bluez-utils version? /etc/conf.d/bluetooth configuration? # hciconfig -a hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:A0:96:1F:B3:A8 ACL MTU: 128:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:1141 acl:0 sco:0 events:43 errors:0 TX bytes:501 acl:0 sco:0 commands:33 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'notorcomp (0)' Class: 0x000100 Service Classes: Unspecified Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized HCI Ver: 1.1 (0x1) HCI Rev: 0x72 LMP Ver: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subver: 0x72 Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10) # ls /dev/hci* ls: cannot access /dev/hci*: No such file or directory
(In reply to comment #1) > What are you trying to do exactly/which services don't work? You don't need >any /dev/hci? device for hciconfig -a to work... The error message hci_usb_intr_rx_submit: hci0 intr rx submit failed urb ffff81007f6ac0a8 err -28 doesn't look quite normal to me. While trying to solve the problem by myself I found many references to /dev/hci0. (unless I didn't understand, which is also possible.) > Also, net-wireless/bluez-utils > version? /etc/conf.d/bluetooth configuration? The packages: - net-wireless/bluez-libs-2.25 (0) - net-wireless/bluez-utils-2.25-r1 (0) /etc/conf.d/bluetooth: HCID_ENABLE=true HCID_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf" SDPD_ENABLE=true HIDD_ENABLE=false HIDD_OPTIONS="" HID2HCI_ENABLE=false RFCOMM_ENABLE=true RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf" DUND_ENABLE=false DUND_OPTIONS="--listen --persist" PAND_ENABLE=false PAND_OPTIONS="--listen --role NAP"
Changed the bug title to the syslog error message.
Reopened the bug.
It turned out to be a problem with missing modules. I've tested my BT hardware with another distribution LiveCD and it worked. So I concluded it was probably due to missing drivers. I had followed the Wiki at that time but I don't exclude some more checks must be made for Dell laptops. I'll post comments when I've found exactly what were the missing drivers. I've roughly copied the working kernel configuration to my laptop and recompiled my kernel. Now my BT hardware works and hciconfig returns meaningful data instead of just zeroes.
you can use sys-kernel/kccmp to compare .config files if you think that would be helpful.
(In reply to comment #6) > you can use sys-kernel/kccmp to compare .config files if you think that would > be helpful. Thanks a lot, Mike; I didn't know of that tool. I used diff -y instead. Note however both kernels are quite different (2.6.20 series, generic on Ubuntu and I'm using a Dell-specific 2.6.23). I know my kernel options almost by heart ;-) and I'm nearly sure the missing drivers were about non-standard serial ports.
