Hello folks, a short summary of the situation concerning the adapter mentioned above with latest kernel 3.8.7: When the bluetooth service is started a device hci0 is created. The adaper still needs a firmware upload to work properly. I extracted the firmware from the windows driver and converted it to hcd format using hex2hcd. There is a tool called 'brcm_patchram_plus'(http://code.google.com/p/broadcom-bluetooth/source/browse/brcm_patchram_plus.c) that loads the firmware into the adapter. After that the adapter is working with linux-bluetooth. Question: Is there any way to perform the upload without using 3rd party tools? Can bluetoothd do this by itself? Thank you Harvey -- I am root. If you see me laughing, you'd better have a backup! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html