bluetooth does not recognize new devices on ux31 on ubuntu 12.04

Bug Description

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
ubuntu precise 12.04 (development branch)

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
4.96-3ubuntu5

3) What you expected to happen
recognize new devices

4) What happened instead
it never find a new bluetooth device.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bluez 4.96-3ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 14 01:18:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. UX31E
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-8-generic root=UUID=85464c8a-d750-43d9-b2e4-ace57f8f1c31 ro recovery nomodeset
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012年01月14日 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: UX31E.210
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: UX31E
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUX31E.210:bd12/26/2011:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnUX31E:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnUX31E:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: UX31E
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 74:2F:68:CE:17:57 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 183:5
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:1455 acl:0 sco:0 events:55 errors:0
TX bytes:1223 acl:0 sco:0 commands:53 errors:0

maybe this path must be include on kernel to solve this bug.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/18801

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

the kernel proposed by http://wurkwith.us/kernel/ solve bluetooth problem.

More info at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1865577&page=55

Reassiging to 'linux' since this is obviously a kernel issue, not a bug in bluez.

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I just download the last ubuntu with kernel 3.2.0-10.18 and this bug is still happen

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I test it with kernel 3.2.0-11.19, 3.2.2-030202 and 3.3 and bug still happend

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I test with kernel 3.2.0-12 published at http://wurkwith.us/kernel/ , and bluetooth works fine.

I test with Ubunt oficial kernel 3.2.0-12 from updated-manager, and bluetooth fails.

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I confirm that shakabra changes on kernel 3.2.2 solve this bug.
More info: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1865577&page=70

You can download this kernel precompiled fromo shakabra at this URL http://wurkwith.us/kernel/

I hope that ubuntu kernel team, can use same patch and add to official Ubuntu kernel.

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I test with 3.2.0-15 and it doesnt work.

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I test this patch that refers my first post and it works,
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/18801

so only have to apply it
wget http://fenski.pl/zenbook/bluetooth.patch
patch -p1 < ../bluetooth.patch

I hope this will be usefull

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i download kernel-request-3.2.0-17.26, and test it, but the bug is still present

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Im still having this issue with Kubuntu 11.10 on UX31 running Kernel 3.3.0-030300rc4-generic from Ubuntu mainline.

Has the patch available at: http://wurkwith.us/kernel/ and mentioned in comment #19 been sent upstream for review?

People affected by this bug are probably wondering why the kernel team doesn't just apply the patch and fix it. The reason is that the kernel team is reluctant (not opposed) to apply any patch to a stable kernel that is not from upstream. Applying patches that don't come from upstream add greatly to the support of the kernel as other upstream patches may touch the same area as the non-upstream patch and may prevent them from applying cleanly.

To submit your patch, send your patch with the detailed description/changelog and your Signoff (ending with Signed-off-by: your name <email>), to the emails listed from ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/hid/hid-input.c (the get_maintainer.pl is from the kernel sources). Once you have sent the patch upstream and it's accepted, please drop a note here so that we can cherry-pick/include the patch into Ubuntu kernel.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Joseph,

Im not sure, but, acordding to this tutorial, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems, it says about: "Make sure patch is applied before anything else happens with your package"

and i found this patch by eran,
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/18801

this is sufficient, or not?

please confirm, in order to proceed to make a new patch :)

It looks like that patch was applied to upstream linux-stable in the following commit:

2d25f8b462f3b849d8913d02978657ef06e67dd8 Bluetooth: Add Atheros AR3012 one PID/VID supported

This commit has also made it into 12.04(Precise). Do you still see this bug with the latest Precise kernel? If so, that patch may not resolve this bug.

I looked closer at the commit 2d25f8b462f3b849d8913d02978657ef06e67dd8

It does not have the patch you mentioned in comment #19

Looking at the linux-stable code, I don't see that patch either. I only see the following in btusb.c:

/* Atheros 3012 with sflash firmware */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x0cf3, 0x3004), .driver_info = BTUSB_ATH3012 },

The patch has:
/* Atheros 3012 with sflash firmware */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x0cf3, 0x3004), .driver_info = BTUSB_ATH3012 },
{ USB_DEVICE(0x13d3, 0x3375), .driver_info = BTUSB_ATH3012 },

I don't see that patch even applied to Linus' latest mainline kernel.

I was able to find that the patch was submitted upstream, but it has not been accepted as of yet:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/4/69

We should keep an eye on this upstream topic and test the latest stable kernel once the patch is accepted upstream.

It was now accepted in upstream http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/19167 , but only in linux-next, not stable.

Since it's now also in Linus' tree, I submitted a request to stable at kernel.org to cherry-pick the commit to 3.2/3.3 stable. Let's see if that goes through. https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=9498ba7a1d38d42eef4ef6d906ab1743c9f0fd6f

Bluetooth: Adding USB device 13d3:3375 as an Atheros AR3012

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.2.0-21.34

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linux (3.2.0-21.34) precise; urgency=low

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