[Bug 1589889] Re: Bluetooth search gets nothing on Dell XPS 15 9550

Cruz Fernandez cruz.fernandez at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 15:05:42 UTC 2016


Updated firmware with latest one (version 481).

Same as last one, decompress it, and ensure the permissions are correct
on:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54734 may 19 21:22 /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM-
0a5c-6410.hcd

When loaded you should see something this on 'dmesg' like:

[ 6828.577574] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM (001.001.005) build 0481

After more digging on how this works, looks like several broadcom chips
have similar problems to load this type of files (bug #1129865, bug
#1065400). According to a question in askubuntu (also best place of how
the procedure to produce this .hcd files)
http://askubuntu.com/questions/632336/bluetooth-broadcom-43142-isnt-
working-on-ubuntu , there are some legal problems that don't allow this
firmware files to be added to the Ubuntu installation

Thanks a lot to @bertusrex on
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2317843&p=13514092#post13514092
for getting into windows and getting us the firmware file.

** Attachment added: "version 481 of firmware bluetooth"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1589889/+attachment/4697483/+files/BCM-0a5c-6410_481.zip

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