ath3k Bluetooth adapter not loading: [0cf3:3004] Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0
I'm currently using an MSI WS60 laptop which contains the following Bluetooth controller (from lsusb):
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3004 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0
and the more detailed version:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3004 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 224 Wireless
bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency
bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0cf3 Atheros Communications, Inc.
idProduct 0x3004 AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0
bcdDevice 0.01
iManufacturer 0 iProduct 0 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
In my kernel logs I see the following:
$dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[ 0.334727] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 0.334734] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 0.334736] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 0.334738] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 0.334740] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 0.604281] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.2 [ 0.604283] Bluetooth: HCI H4 protocol initialized [ 0.604285] Bluetooth: HCI BCSP protocol initialized [ 0.604286] Bluetooth: HCILL protocol initialized [ 0.604288] Bluetooth: HCIATH3K protocol initialized [ 0.615125] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 0.615129] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 0.615132] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 0.615136] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 0.615138] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 0.615141] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 0.615144] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2 [ 0.615146] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized [ 1.358547] Bluetooth: Patch file not found ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu [ 1.358548] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
I did a search for this issue and only found other bugs indicating that this should be reported upstream:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1451689
A mailing list message:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg135868.html
And a possible duplicate:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg135869.html
My /proc/version:
Linux version 4.0.0-wl-ath+ (root@catelyn) (gcc version 4.8.4 (Gentoo
4.8.4 p1.5, pie-0.6.1) ) #14 SMP Thu May 7 18:26:16 AEST 2015
I am running the ath+ branch because my Wi-Fi will not work on the current kernel (attempted linux-4.0.4-gentoo and Wi-Fi failed to load firmware, bluetooth had exact same message in kernel logs as reported above). I'm running commit 4b9abafd of the kvalo/ath fork with the atk10k firmware files from my own sumdog/ath10k-firmware fork.
Is there an official bug in for this issue yet that I can watch? Are there any dfu files I can try out there for my specific device? I can build any kernels you need if you want more specific debugging information.
Sumit