[Bug 714862] [NEW] Atheros AR3002 cannot be turned up/is not recognized.

[Marcus Sharp]

Public bug reported:

The key is the device by Atheros Communications, Inc, which is their
AR3002.

This is the device that Dell is putting into this Vostro V130, which Dell ships with Ubuntu 10.04 pre-loaded.
 Atheros indicates that:

"As a proponent of open software, Atheros provides its own Bluetooth
stack for easy portability and also supports standard Bluetooth stacks
such as Blue Z on Linux, Chrome OS, and Android OS. All Bluetooth
profiles in Blue Z are supported, including headset and hands-free
profiles, A2DP, FTP, DUN, OPP, PAN, SPP and PBAP.."

So they say this device should support Bluez.

Go to the Bluez page, and search for "atheros," and you find this:

http://www.bluez.org/l2cap-extended-features-on-2-6-36/

Very briefly, it says "Support for the Atheros AR300x chip."

I would hope that "3002" is part of "300x," but I'm not sure. I went
ahead and added the natty packages to my repository, so that I could
effectively install the bluez 4.87 and related packages.

Well, this ends a lot of errors. Now, when I launch blueman, I get no
connection errors, or anything, but still no options to connect any
devices.

This still happens:

sudo hciconfig:

hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: 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:24 acl:0 sco:0 commands:8 errors:0

Which tells me that the AR3002 is still not "seen."

sudo hciconfig hci0 up yields:
Can't init device hci0: Connection timed out (110)

Now, in a very rational sense, I believe I have hit the dead end. The
device is simply too new, I guess, to be supported(?)  Turning in bug
request in hope of future support, and as question has no activity on
it.  If this this is incorrect procedure, please forgive, as I'm new
here.

** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Atheros AR3002 cannot be turned up/is not recognized.