[CentOS] Bluetooth 4.0 with chip BCM20702A0 on CentOS6.4

Sun Jun 23 12:24:34 UTC 2013
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 06/23/2013 08:18 AM, Heng Su wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>    I bought a USB Bluetooth dongle.
>
> However, it's not working for me. Please help, how to debug and get more
> information as I can not see any error or warning message from system log
> message.
>
> I checked http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/22183/focus=22211,
> however, also find another page
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.3_Release_Notes/index.html
> said
> already support BCM20702A0.
>
> Please help, thank you.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux Host-004 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 12 03:34:52 UTC
> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> After plugin USB dongle system print out below messages:
>
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: new full speed USB device
> number 7 using ehci_hcd
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: New USB device found,
> idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=21e8
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: New USB device strings:
> Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: Product: *BCM20702A0*
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: SerialNumber: 0002723348A8
> Jun 23 13:46:33 Host-004 kernel: usb 1-1.3.4: configuration #1 chosen from
> 1 choice
>
>
> Below is the verbose information via lsusb:
>
> Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0a5c:21e8 Broadcom Corp.

You can try with newer kernels from ElRepo 
(http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php) that have compatible API's with 
EL6. look for elrepo-kernel section on main page. Currently there are 
kernels 3.0.83-1 and 3.9.7-1. But do note that those are third party 
kernels, even though ElRepo is safe third party repository.


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