BT stops working after firmware upgrade to 1.1 on alu powerbook

hello folks...

yesterday, i upgraded to the new bluetooth firmware 1.1 from apple. afterwards, bluetooth still worked on OS X, but not in linux anymore. the months before, bluetooth worked just fine with hci-usb, thank you. now, hci_usb is not even loaded automatically and when it is loaded manually, there is no device hci0.
by chance, i found out, that the values in /proc/bus/usb/devices show other values now:

T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc= 44/900 us ( 5%), #Int=  2, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.5-rc3-ben0-mh3 ohci_hcd
S:  Product=PCI device 106b:003f (Apple Computer Inc.)
S:  SerialNumber=0001:01:1a.0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=05ac ProdID=1000 Rev=12.41
C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  16 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  16 Ivl=1ms

look at the device in lev 01 which used to be the bluetooth device. interestingly, the release notes of the firmware talk about improvements when handling mice and keyboards (see class + proto above). this is the output of the old /proc/bus/usb/devices:

T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc= 43/900 us ( 5%), #Int=  1, #Iso=  2
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.5-spring ohci_hcd
S:  Product=PCI device 106b:003f (Apple Computer Inc.)
S:  SerialNumber=0001:01:1a.0
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=05ac ProdID=8203 Rev= 5.26
C:* #Ifs= 3 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  16 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=   0 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=   0 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=   9 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=   9 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 2 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  17 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  17 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 3 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  25 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  25 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 4 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  33 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  33 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 5 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E:  Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  49 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=  49 Ivl=1ms
I:  If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=fe(app. ) Sub=01 Prot=00 Driver=(none)

very strange, indeed.
i attached the info i could gather from OS X and the relevant output of "lsusb -vv" for both firmwares.

my question now is, if there is any hope to fix this. i worked a little on hci_usb.c. first, i added the device id statically to bluetooth_ids, then i tried to hardcode the endpoint data into husb->*_ep which i could not complete yet due to some missing data. but will this be enuff? is there more to do? do you need more info?

luckily, i found a way to use the old firmware, simply overwriting the new one does not work for some reason. you have to force the firmware updater to load the old firmware in OS X, then warm-boot into linux. the next time you boot into linux, the new firmware superposes the old one again and you have to load the old firmware under OS X again. weird and it does not always work.

thanks in advance,
sebastian

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Hi Sebastian,

your new firmware is a HID proxy firmware. You need to use the hid2hci utility to switch it from the HID mode to the HCI mode which will then work with the hci_usb driver. The hid2hci source code can be found in the utils2 CVS repository.

Regards

Marcel

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