I have the same issue with a mini-usb dongle bought off ebay. The proposed patch / workaround in hci_usb.c didn't work for me. I had to compile the module btusb (disabled by default in ubuntu kernel) against the running kernel and blacklist hci_usb.
My setup is also Ubuntu Hardy: f...@x22:~$ uname -r 2.6.24-25-generic f...@x22:~$ lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 f...@x22:~$ lsmod | grep -i bt btusb 8724 2 bluetooth 61028 7 rfcomm,l2cap,btusb usbcore 146412 3 btusb,uhci_hcd f...@x22:~$ dmesg ... [ 36.600204] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 [ 36.700510] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 36.700521] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 36.700535] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 36.828173] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.1 [ 36.828577] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb ... f...@x22:~$ hcitool dev Devices: hci0 00:15:83:15:A3:10 -- USB Bluetooth dongle floods a console (and doesn't work in one direction) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386736 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs